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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… 17th-century shields. On the N. ( a) the arms assigned to Sir Gilbert Neville; ( b) with the inscription "Henry Nevill Esquier and Alice his wife daughter of Sir John Duckombe Knight Chancellor of the Dutchie had issue …
A Dictionary of London
… 1880. "Fratres beatae Mariae de monte Carmeli," founded by Sir Richard Gray, 1241 (S. 399).Licence granted to them to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In 1599, the manor of St. Bees was purchased from Sir Thomas Chaloner, Knt., by Gerard Lowther and Thomas … Esqrs.; and the whole having come into the possession of Sir John Lowther, Bart-, in the year 1644, Whitehaven, under … and low water mark, to the extent of two miles northward, Sir John materially improved the harbour, extended the …
Old and New London
… of noisy Bobadils. In the reign of Edward I., a certain Sir Robert Gray, moved by qualms of conscience or honest … Hall on the 27th of June, before Mr. Justice Yelverton. Sir Francis Bacon, the Solicitor-General, did what he could … by Mr. Andrew Halliday's dexterous dramatic adaptation. Sir Walter chooses a den of Alsatia as a sanctuary for young …
A Dictionary of London
… School erected on the site, c. 1832. Whittington's (Sir Richard) Palace In Hart Street, four houses from Mark …
Survey of London
… next to the Stone Gallery, was created Duke in 1672. (v) Sir Robert Murray, whose house is shown adjoining the Holbein … to the bridge, and another up the canal in the park." 17 Sir Robert Carr was accommodated there in 1676, 18 and in … under the Gate. 20 It was occasionally used as a prison. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in 1669 caused the king's physician, …
Survey of London
… officials a burden. On the occasion of the marriage of Sir Philip Herbert at Whitehall on 27th December, 1604, the … at the door of his Chamber." Next day he was taken to Sir Robert Cotton's house near the west end of Westminster … ye plott." All rooms being occupied he prevailed on Sir Edward Carteret to give up his rooms from 7th November, …
Old and New London
… and writers, from the Augustan era of Queen Anne down to Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, the late Duke of Buckingham, and Lord … the Lord Sands, Lord Chamberlain to the King; and also by Sir Henry Guildford, Comptroller to the King. Then … reverently; to whom the Lord Chamberlain for them said, 'Sir, forasmuch as they be strangers and can speak no English, …
Old and New London
… Restoration of the PalaceThe Cock-pitCromwell and Sir Roger L'EstrangeDeath of Oliver CromwellThe Ultimate Fate … often be present. In one of these musical entertainments Sir Roger L'Estrange happened to be a performer. As he did … is given an English epigram, "On a Cock at Rochester," by Sir Charles Sedley, wherein the following lines, which imply, …
Old and New London
… Sun-dialsName changed to Whitehall GardensLady Hervey and Sir Thomas RobinsonSir Robert Peel's HousePembroke House and … order made by the Court of Sewers, as to the "sluice near Sir Robert Pye's, and the outfall thereof into the river, … on were the houses of Lord Farnborough (better known as Sir Charles Long) and the Earl of Malmesbury. Here, too, …