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A History of the County of Middlesex
… John Preston had 83 a. 39 The largest estate was Bishop's Hall, in 1652 c. 93 a. divided into 15 fields and occupied … 1610 14 and 1660. 15 There was a shift towards grassland: St. Paul's close on the west side of Cambridge Road was … 1721 it was Bridgman's; 29 Thomas Bridgman, gardener, of St. John Street occupied it until his death between 1760 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Thomas Parmiter in his will proved 1682 79 hoped that St. George's chapel could be obtained as a schoolhouse for the poor of … 81 and the first public school was Parmiter's, built in St. John Street in 1722. In 1765, when Parmiter's was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Robinson, conveyed in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the … Smyth, William's brother, who sold it to Richard Knight of St. Giles without Cripplegate, armourer, in 1654. 94 The … Thomas and Robert, both minors. 90 He left money to St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, which was used in 1671 and 1674 to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… slum, the green lying c. 2½ miles (4 km.) north-east of St. Paul's cathedral. 1 A hamlet of Stepney until 1743, when it became … lakes' 18 to the natural ponds, like that on the green by St. George's chapel. 19 J. Dugdale, New Brit. Traveller …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to the north, on the east side of Cambridge Road in Queen's Row, 52 a Jews' asylum existed from 1820 53 and possibly … congregation 1901 64 or 1914, 65 reg. at no. 21 Hare St. 1919. 66 Bldg. closed as unsafe soon after 1987, when … membership was 180. 67 Rosiner Synagogue, no. 13 Buxton St., claimed foundation by Fed. of Syn. 1901 and reg. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Pal. Libr., Fulham Papers, Tait 440 (for 1858), Mackeson's Guide (1866, 1871, 1899), and H. W. Harris and M. Bryant, … 4 Holy Trinity, Shoreditch. Dist. assigned from St. Phil. Bethnal Green, and St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 1866. Benefice united with St. Leonard …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… increased to 14 and, by 1816, to 28. 89 The vestry clerk's reference in 1816 to books from 1627 'when the parish … agent, mayor in 1913, 5 and resident as an adult in St. Peter Street, close to where he was born. 6 A.J.S. (Tom) … who lived outside the borough, two women, and the vicar of St. James the Less. They employed five clerks, a collector, a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… house from 1669 87 or one using the formerly Anglican St. George's chapel and associated with the dissenters' academy at … Brand was the preacher, in 1689. 93 The Huguenot église de St. Jean, Spitalfields, had been established on the north …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… owner, the close contained a spring dedicated to St. Winifred in 1160 within a Gothic building from which … laid into Bethnal Green', presumably in 1807. 83 Simcock's or Sincook's well in the Great Hyde, mentioned c. 1399, 84 supplied the hospital of St. Mary without Bishopsgate before the Dissolution 85 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… he was indicted in 1588. 56 John Howe, a tenant of Bishop's Hall, was absent from church in 1640 57 but suspicions that … and 1840s 64 and four families of 'avowed Romanists' in St. John's parish in 1858. 65 Although Bethnal Green lay … at the Lithuanian church from 1931, and the Canonesses of St. Augustine from 1982. 72 The churches and other …