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… The Piazza The Social Decline of the Piazza The Social … residents there were many persons of title, including at least three earls. Entries in the ratebooks reflect the … the last being Lord Archer whose occupancy came to an end in 1757. 42 a The social decline of Covent Garden had … 1756, vol. 11, p. 1347. An Eighteenth Century Journal, ed. John Hampden, 1940, p. 334. …
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… The Pitt estate CHAPTER III - The Pitt Estate When first … copyhold land, although it must have been enfranchised at an early date. In 1616 Hicks purchased some seventy acres … Allason died in 1852 15 and was succeeded as surveyor by John Shaw, architect to Christ's Hospital. 16 Houses …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street Introduction CHAPTER IX The … Crown lease to trustees for the Earl of St. Albans at Michaelmas 1734. The rent to be paid was 13 s. 4 d. 9 The … interest to 19 January 1733/4 was obtained from his son, John, by Cholmondeley and the younger Thomas Pitt in July …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street Meard Street Meard Street Only … however, the building leases were made to the same lessee, John Meard, the younger, carpenter, and the whole is … The north and south ranges terminated approximately at the present eastern boundaries of Nos. 12 and 13, where …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 71 Dean Street No. 71 Dean … gable. This building replaced a house of c. 1756, built at the same time as the former Nos. 72 and 73 (see table on … the Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd.; B.A.28888. John Hutchins, History and Antiquities of the County of …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 72-74 (consec.) Dean … facing bricks sparingly dressed with stone, used for the Doric open-pedimented porch to the central entrance, for … Carved figures in the tympanum of the doorway, and masks at the ends of the first-floor bandcourse serve to recall the …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 74 Dean Street No. 74 Dean … shop front, probably inserted c. 1796 for an upholsterer, John Weatherall. 50 This was an elegant composition of three … were exit doors of about 1883, from the Royalty Theatre at the rear. The upper part of the front was in 1901 quite …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 75 Dean Street No. 75 Dean … occupant, Bulstrode Peachey Knight (hitherto resident at No. 5 Lisle Street), who had taken an assignment of … for Midhurst, and left his brothers, Sir Henry and John Peachey, his burgage tenements there 'and all the votes …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 76 Dean Street No. 76 Dean … Hussey has suggested, the Earl's second son, the Hon. John Hamilton. 180 This spirited and capable naval officer … in March 1735/6, and distinguished himself later that year at the wreck of the Louisa. He was appointed captain of the …
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… The Pitt Estate in Dean Street No. 77 Dean Street No. 77 Dean … that No. 77 had a pedimented Ionic doorcase, like that at No. 75, in the third opening from the south. 194 The … plumber; Thomas Towerson, bricklayer; Wattson, glazier; John Westbrook, smith; and John Whitehead, plasterer. William …