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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of the House of Parliament. May it please your Highness, I am commanded by the Parliament of England, Scotland, and … of Somerset, in the minority of that young Saint and King, Edward VI. The name and office of a King is better known, and … in an old adage Festina Lentè. The plaintiff will ride post with Festina, but Lentè, quoth the defendant, and puts …
A Survey of London
… & wall houses to be builded, to what danger of the Citie, I leaue to wiser consideration: and can but wish that … the Tower ditch. In the yeare of Christ, 1354. the 28. of Edward the third, the ditch of this Citie flowing ouer the … letting out the banks, with the spoyle of the whole ditch. I am not ignorant of two fifteenes graunted by a common …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 1066 until the date of the Survey. Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, i, 46. Cart. Sax. 547. Above, pp. 3801. The large …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The Domesday survey The text Oxenefordscire In King Edward's Time Oxeneford (Oxford) rendered yearly to the King … 8 d. Here are Entered the Landholders in Oxenefordscire i. King William. ii. The Archbishop of Canterbury. iii. The … 60 s.; and now (it is worth the same) ( valuit xl sol. et post et modo lx sol). fo. 158b Gilbert holds of Robert …
Survey of London
… Piccadilly Hall had been built during the reign of James I by one Robert Baker, whose will, dated 1623, revealed him … was a corruption of 'Peaked Hill' gained some support. 14 Edward Walford thought (quite wrongly) that Pennant had … 67 and had married his eldest daughter, Frances, to Edward Hobart, esquire, a member of an important land-owning …
Survey of London
… and 50ft deep, with slate roofs supported on oak queen-post trusses. In 1855 accommodation for 12,000 tons of guano … 1950s (Plate 63a). They were constructed with timber queen-post roof-trusses, and castiron columns, purchased from … on the wall did not begin until the autumn of 1805. 208 i By mid-July 1806 the wall had been completed to its full …
Survey of London
… the drawer. 28 In 1668 an order was given 36 that the post-house should be removed from the Swan to the Red Lion on … the Strand and was made to serve as an entrance to the Post Office, which occupied the ground storey of the building …
Survey of London
… this period is entered in the Court section of the Post Office Directory but not in the Trade section, continued … chronological order of their work, William Watts, George Edward Mineard, William Ashfold, George Stevens and George … Vestry Works Committee Minutes, 14 June 1871, p. 154: R.I.B.A. Library, Fellowship Nomination Papers, Philip …
Survey of London
… included; four stories of the smallest dimensions (which I have measured since): two kitchens, six-feet three inches … afterwards, however, both lots were sold privately to John Edward and Charles James Allen and The Amalgamated Estates … a garage and ultimately (after piecemeal rebuildings) a Post Office with a sorting office at the rear. 119 In 1921 …
Survey of London
… heir, Isabel, to Sir Henry Rich. On the death in 1721 of Edward Henry Rich, the seventh Earl of Warwick and fourth … the Kensington property on the death of his elder brother, Edward Henry Edwardes, in 1738, a second son having … houses, which had been erected by the same builder, George Edward Mineard, a year or so earlier (Plate 123a, b, fig. …