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… Piccadilly adjoining south the yard or garden of Richard Boswell, butcher, and west on Thomas Turpin's messuage and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… His friendship with Dr. Johnson is recorded frequently by Boswell, and Johnson's letters to him are preserved in the … and Bennet Langton (commoner 1758), who also figure in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. Among the scholars are John … lxxxv, 2769, and a note in Powell's ed. of Birkbeck Hill's Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, vol. i, 543). The fine stone …
A History of the County of Essex
… 12 As early as 1528 the Colchester clothmaker John Boswell the younger reported difficulty in selling his cloths …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 141-4. Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Toynbee, ii. 279. Boswell's disparagement of the society he found there should …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hawkins, Anecdotes, &c. i (1822), 46. D.N.B. ix. 220-1. Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. L. F. Powell, i. 479 n. …
Old and New London
… length of the murder of Miss Reay by the Rev. Mr. Hackman. Boswell was present at Hackman's trial at the Old Bailey, and … in company with a sheriff's officer. Selwyn, who, like Boswell, was fond of seeing executions, was not present on … felt) for these melancholy sights is thus discussed by Boswell and Dr. Johnson:"I mentioned to him that I had seen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… History. John Scott was a fellow from 1767 to 1774. Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill), iii, 245. Boswell records that Johnson called on Dr. Wetherell in Mar. … with him in June 1784. See Birkbeck Hill's edition of Boswell, ii, 268 n., for anecdotes of Johnson when visiting …
Old and New London
… took boat again at Billingsgate, as we find Johnson and Boswell once doing, on their way to Greenwich, in 1763. …