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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… The military establishment Gentlemen Pensioners Gentlemen Pensioners (Gentlemen at Arms) 16601837 The principal officers of the band of … Sir Lewis Kirke was appointed for life. 3 His successor, John Kirke, was originally appointed during pleasure in 1664 …
Survey of London
… The Millwall Docks Historical development CHAPTER XII - The … The area had been recognized as suitable for wet docks at earlier periods of growth in the Port, in the 1790s and … an ad hoc partnership of leading public-works contractors, John Kelk and John Aird & Son. However, they took the scheme …
Survey of London
… The Millwall Docks The buildings The Buildings The first generation of buildings at the Millwall Docks was of modest scale and standard … warehouses in 1869 to attract the wool trade to the docks. John Cousens, Francis Renshaw and Alfred Mackenzie responded …
Survey of London
… The Millwall Docks The docks The Docks Inner Dock and Outer … of the built section of docks had been settled by (Sir) John Fowler and William Wilson by July 1865 when (Sir) John … level of the quays. 80 There were 2,000 to 3,000 labourers at work, reportedly well organized, and progress was rapid. …
A History of the County of York
… The Minster and its precincts THE MINSTER AND ITS PRECINCTS … the present crypt. There is more certainty about the times at which each part of the present church was erected. The … central tower have been ascribed to the treasurership of John Romeyn ( c. 1260-5): the north, 'Five Sisters' window …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… The monastic buildings Cloister buildings CHAPTER IX - … shown in Hardwick's plan, but doubtless there was one as at Norwich and elsewhere, because the slype formed the … which he fitted up for a chapel'; and we show later that John Wesley, in 1763, began preaching 'in a large commodious …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… The monastic buildings Monastic close, fair ground, gardens … walls, but outside the range of the monastic buildings. At St. Bartholomew's there was, in addition to the close, a … on this east side were the important houses and gardens of John Burgoyne and his two sons, Thomas and Robert. These …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… The monastic buildings The cloister CHAPTER VIII - THE … of the monastery, and afterwards to complete the church. At any rate this course seems to have been followed at St. … in contemplation at an earlier date, for in the year 1387 John Royston, whoas already statedbequeathed twenty pounds to …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… The monastic buildings The outer court CHAPTER X - THE OUTER … of the prior's lodgings or house ( Camera prioris) at St. Bartholomew's before the sixteenth century is, as … year 1654 they were succeeded by the Independents, when John Rowe was the preacher. At the Restoration in 1660 the …
Old and New London
… The Monument and its neighbourhood CHAPTER L. THE MONUMENT … with greater speed or beauty may be made a question. At three years' time the world saw that finished which was … vocable, rather than a word." (Southey, "Omniana.") Mr. John Hollingshead, an admirable modern essayist, in a chapter …