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Staffordshire Historical Collections
… without the assent and ratification of the Parson of the place; and the fine having been levied in a suit respecting …
Old and New London
… occupied by St. Mary's Church, and which in its turn gave place to the famous Maypole, thus alluded to in the … is pulled down the rubbish must be carried to the proper place, and not left on the footway." In the description of …
Old and New London
… Guardian (No. 102) of his "Doily suit," and Dryden in one place mentions "Doyly petticoats;" but if we may believe … Oldfield, the actress, also lived in Southampton Street. Tavistock Street was the stable-yard to Bedford House; and where Tavistock and York Streets meet was "the horse-pond." In …
Old and New London
… Street, the traffic in frippery and old clothes took its place, and has, to a certain extent, continued to the present …
Old and New London
… for precedency. The house deserves to be remembered as the place where the rash friends of the Queen's favourite, the … of it is still to be traced in the name of Pit or Pitt Place, an abridgment of "Cock-pit" Place. Samuel Pepys thus describes in his "Diary" a visit to …
Old and New London
… is now for the most part occupied by the houses in Thanet Place, Palsgrave Place (both culs de sac), and Devereux Court. The first of … nearly as possible on the site of the old "Rose Tavern," a place of rendezvous for lawyers and wits in the last century. …
Old and New London
… site of Beaufort Buildings, between the Savoy and Durham Place, stood Worcester House, the town mansion of the Earls … the Earl of Worcester soon caused to be built in the place of the walnut-tree a large house of brick, which took … in 1695. The building adjoining, Salisbury House, gave place to Cecil Street and Salisbury Street, the latter of …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… both of whom are mentioned above, were the Lords of the place (Kirkby's Inquest, p. 341). Thweng's Inq. p. m. was … service. The capital messuage and dovecotes at the former place were worth 4 s a year. Two carucates of land 100 s, the …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy
… under the Liberty of St. Mary's, but it seems to be the place intended. Hutton-le-Hole, Lastingham par. Called in …