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Survey of London
… The Halifax estate in Spitalfields CHAPTER XV - The Halifax … the East. 2 The edition of Stow published in 1720 by John Strype, who was born in a court off the Lane, tells a … Street. When, therefore, the City Commissioners of Sewers at this time asked the Council to contribute towards their …
Survey of London
… The Harrison Estate CHAPTER 5: THE HARRISON ESTATE This … Bloomsbury, and on the east it reached Gray's Inn Road. At its northern end an inn called the Pindar of Wakefield … with nine acres of land late in the occupation of John Younge, viz. seven late in the occupation of widow …
Old and New London
… The Haymarket CHAPTER XVIII. THE HAYMARKET. "From the … "in Grain"Addison in a GarretThackeray on AddisonSir John Suckling's HeroineTiddydoll and his GingerbreadLord … Appearance in Paul PrySubsequent Managers and Actors at the Haymarket: Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. …
Survey of London
… The Haymarket CHAPTER 12: THE HAYMARKET Early History What is … upon a Wedding written before 1640 contains the lines "At Charing Cross, hard by the way, Where we (thou know'st) do … taking 6d. a load for hay and 3d. for straw." In 1661 Sir John Denham, Surveyor of the Works, asked that the market …
Survey of London
… The Haymarket Opera House CHAPTER VIII The Haymarket Opera House This chapter describes the theatre known at various dates as the Queen's, the King's, Her Majesty's, … The theatre (Plates 24, 39) was originally built by (Sir) John Vanbrugh in 17045. Important alterations to the interior …
Survey of London
… The Haymarket, West Side CHAPTER VI The Haymarket, West Side … with only two or three houses on the west side, clustered at the south end. The name Haymarket was first applied to the … attended by over thirteen hundred hay and straw carts. 10 John Nash's plan for the formation of the New Street from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The Heath THE HEATH The Heath (641 a., 259 ha.) and Norncott … when the chapel was built, 41 there was a settlement at the south-west edge of the heath from which by 1236 it had … when Peter son of Reynold quitclaimed it to William son of John, of Castle Holdgate, 82 who held it of the lord of …
Survey of London
… The Historic Buildings Board of the Greater London Council … Mr. Victor R. M. Langton Advisory Members Sir John Betjeman, C.B.E. Lord Faringdon Mr. Osbert Lancaster, C.B.E. Mr. Ian L. Phillips Sir Paul Reilly Sir John Summerson, C.B.E. Members of the Council Mr. B. J. Brown …
The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century
Camden Record Society, Old Series, volume 17. This Camden Society volume is in three parts. The bulk of the book is the Chronicle of London by William Gregory, a London skinner and mayor of the fifteenth century. It also contains John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen and Lydgate's verses on the kings of England.
Survey of London
… The history of All Hallows Church From the Reformation to the … suffered death for conscience' sake was the aged bishop John Fisher, who was executed on Tower Hill, 22 July, 1535, … they were not good," until the bishop of London preached at St. Paul's Cross and said that Tyndale had translated the …