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London Barracks Living London 1902

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IN LONDON BARRACKS.
By MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS.

“Sentry-Go.”

As dawn approaches the sentry at the London barrack gate counts the moments to the hour of relief. This is probably his last spell of "sentry-go," and he has nothing more to do but to stand at arms with the rest of the guard when reveille sounds, and to clean himself decently against dismounting guard.

It has been a tedious and trying time, marching to and fro on his short beat for two hours out of every six, lounging in the guard-room in idle talk with his comrades, always prompt to answer the startling summons, " Guard turn out! " whether for inspection, or to pay a proper compliment to some passing superior officer. But this tour of guard will not return for a week or so ; for " six nights in bed," as the saying goes, is about the average of the London Guardsman's escape from " sentry-go," whether at Chelsea, St. George's, or Wellington Barracks, or at the Palaces or the Tower.

Reveille sounding is the barrack alarum clock. It wakens the whole interior to active life. A single trumpeter in the mounted regiments standing alone in the barrack square has blown out the brazen "rouse"; in the Foot Guards a bugler or two, in some regiments the band of drums and fifes, have signalled the start of another day. The hour varies according to the seasons ; from 5.30 a.m. to 6 a.m. in the summer, and in autumn or winter never later than 6.30. The trumpets sound "stables" at 6 a.m. in summer, at 6.30 in winter, and this, the grooming and feeding of his charger, and the cleansing of the stall, are always the cavalry soldier's first care.

Day Alexander Alias Marmaduke Davenport a Sharper Newgate Calendar Savage Henry 1926

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ALEXANDER DAY, Alias MARMADUKE DAVENPORT, ESQ.
A Sharper

THE mode of plunder practised by this villain at the time of committing his depredations was not common; but now the great metropolis of our country abounds with such insidious robbers. This kind of thieving, in modern times is ycleped swindling, and the latter part of our pages will adduce instances of the tricks of sharpers, passing almost credibility. The fellow now before us was, however, circumstances considered, an adept, and, like our modern swindlers, had a fictitious name, an accomplice, sometimes acting as his footman, a hired horse, and borrowed carriage.

The great qualifications, or leading and indispensable attributes, of a sharper or swindler, are, to possess a genteel exterior, a demeanour apparently artless, and a good address.

Among the various classes of sharpers may be reckoned those who obtain licenses to become pawnbrokers, and bring disgrace upon the reputable part of the trade by every species of fraud which can add to the distresses of those who are compelled to raise money in this way; for which purpose there are abundance of opportunities. Swindling pawnbrokers of this class are uniformly receivers of stolen goods; and, under the cover of their license, do much mischief to the public. The evil arising from them might, in a great measure, be prevented by placing the power of granting licenses in a general board of police; and rendering it necessary for all persons to produce a certificate of character before they can obtain such license, and also to enter into recognizance for good behaviour.

Parkhurst Nathaniel Executed for murder 1715 Newgate Calendar Savage Henry 1926

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NATHANIEL PARKHURST, ESQ. Executed for Murder

IT is somewhat singular that, in our search of the ancient records of crimes and punishments, we should find, in chronological order, two murders, stimulated by the fumes of intoxication. Of this disgraceful practice—of itself a sin—we could give a long lecture; but let these dreadful consequences operate as a caution to drunkards.

Mr. Parkhurst was indicted at the Old Bailey, for the murder of Lewis Pleura, on the 3d of March, 1715; and a second time indicted on the statute of stabbing; when the substance of the evidence given against him was as follows:

He was a native of the village of Catesby, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire, and was the son of very respectable parents, who, having given him the education common in a country academy, sent him to finish his studies at Wadham College, in Oxford; but, associating himself with men of an atheistical turn of mind, they employed themselves in ridiculing religion, and making a jest of the scriptures, and every thing that was held sacred.

Lewis Pleura, who was born in Italy, had taken upon himself the title of count, and subsisted by the practice of gaming, till, being greatly reduced in circumstances, he was obliged to take refuge in the Fleet prison, where he became acquainted with Mr. Parkhurst.

Chester Cheshire - Walls and Streets - Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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Walls and Streets.—The city stands on a rocky elevation, half encircled by a bend of the Dee; is engirt with walls 1 ¾ mile and 101 yards in circuit; and presents to the eye of a stranger a striking and picturesque appearance. The walls date from the Roman times; underwent extensive repair and improvement, in 908, by the Princess Ethelfleda; retain, to the present day, portions of both Roman and Saxon masonry; are so broad as to admit, even where narrowest, of two persons walking abreast; form a fine promenade for the citizens; and afford most delightful views of the Dee's estuary, the circumjacent country, and the distant Welsh mountains. Four main entrances and three posterns pierce the walls; and three of many towers which formerly defended them, are still in a nearly perfect state.

Chester Cheshire - Public Buildings Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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Public Buildings.—A castle was built in the city by Hugh Lupus, soon after the Conquest; and appears to have included some portion of the Roman fortifications. A magnificent hall of it, 100 feet long, 45 feet wide, very lofty, and of great historical interest, was pulled down in 1786; and the chief part of it now standing is a tower, called Agricola's, containing a frescoed chapel, in which James II. heard mass. A spacious modern edifice occupies the castle's site and bears its name; is a royal fortress, with a governor and other officers; includes barracks, armoury, shire hall, and county jail; presents a grand classical exterior, much admired; and equals or surpasses every edifice of its kind, in the convenience of its interior arrangements.

Chester Cheshire - History Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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History.—The ancient Britons had a town on the site of Chester from some remote period unknown to record. The Romans took possession of it in 61; built fortifications round it; placed in it their twentieth legion, "Valens Victrix; called it Deva or Deunana; and held it till the last hour of their sway in England. The Britons, on gaining repossession, called it Caer-Lleon-Vawr, signifying "the fort of the great legion." The Saxons took it from the Britons in 828, and called it Legeceaster. The Danes got possession of it in 894; but were expelled by Ethelfreda in 908. Hugh Lupus obtained it, with the county, from the Conqueror; and made it the seat of his palatinate. Henry II.

Chester Cheshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTER, a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of Lancashire. The city stands on the river Dee and on the Via Devana, 5 miles SE of the head of the Dee's estuary, and 16, through Birkenhead, SSE of Liverpool. An artificial channel of the Dee, navigable for vessels of 350 tons, gives it communication, through the Dee's estuary, with the sea; one canal connects it northward with the Mersey at Ellesmere - Port, and another east-south-eastward with the Birmingham canal at Nantwich; and railways go from it in five directions, toward Birkenhead, Manchester, Crewe, Shrewsbury, and Holyhead.

Chester and Holyhead Railway Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY, a railway from Chester, westward through North Wales, to Holyhead. It was authorized in 1844; executed by R. Stephenson, at a cost of £3,581,587; and amalgamated, in 1859, with the London and Northwestern. Its length, exclusive of branches, is 85 miles. It goes down the left side of the Dee to the vicinity of the sea; goes then along the coast to the vicinity of Bangor; crosses the Menai strait, 3 miles above the head of Beaumaris bay; and goes through Anglesey westward to Bodorgan, and north-westward thence to Holyhead.

Chesterblade Somerset Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTERBLADE, a chapelry in Evercreech parish, Somerset; adjacent to the East Somerset railway, 3 ¼ miles ESE of Shepton-Mallet. Post-town, Evercreech, under Bath. Real property, £2,347. Pop., 57. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Evercreech, in the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Great Chesterford Essex Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTERFORD (GREAT), a village and a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex. The village stands at the verge of the county, on the river Granta, adjacent to the Eastern Counties railway, 4 miles NNW of Saffron-Walden; and has a station, of the name of Chesterford, on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Great Chesterford, under Saffron-Walden. It formerly was a market-town; and it still has a fair on 1 July. A Roman station was here; and Roman roads went hence to Chelmsford, Cambridge, and Ixworth. Traces of Roman walls exist; vestiges of a Roman villa and a Roman temple were recently discovered; and many Roman coins, urns, and other relics have been found. The parish comprises 3,030 acres. Real property, £5,082. Pop., 1,027. Houses, 215. The property is much subdivided.

Little Chesterford Essex Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTERFORD (LITTLE), a parish in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; on the river Granta, 1 mile SSE of Chesterford r, station, and 3 NNW of Saffron-Walden. It has a post-office under Saffron-Walden. Acres, 1,260. Real property, £1,899. Pop., 276. Houses, 55. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Great Chesterford, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is ancient but very good; and has a brass of 1462. Charities, £41.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chester Durham Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHESTER, a ward of the county of Durham. It forms the northern part of the county; is separated from Easington ward by the river Wear, from a point 2 ¾ miles south of Durham to the sea; extends west by southward, from the Wear's mouth to Shorngate-Cross, 33 miles; varies in breadth, northward, from 3 miles to 17; and contains thirteen parishes, parts of two others, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 138,711. Pop. in 1851, 74,706; in 1861, 99,872. Houses, 17,776.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childs Hill Middlesex Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDS-HILL, a locality ¾ of a mile NW of Hampstead, in Middlesex. It has a, post-office under Hampstead, London NW.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childerditch Essex Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDERDITCH, a parish in Billericay district, Essex; 2 ½ miles S by E of Brentwood r. station, and 6 SW of Billericay. Post-town, Brentwood. Acres, 1,614. Real property, £1,664. Pop., 239. Houses, 43. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £160. Patron, Lord Petre. The church was reported in 1859 to need repair.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Child Okeford Dorset Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILD-OKEFORD, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset, on the river Stour, and on the Central Dorset railway, near Shillingstone station, 3 ½ miles ESE of Sturminster.. It has a post-office under Blandford. Acres, 1,752. Real property, with Handford, £4,983. Pop., 783. Houses, 168. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £316. Patron, the Rev. C. E. North. The church is good; and there are charities, £15.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childhay Dorset Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDHAY, a tything in Broadwinsor parish, Dorset; 3 ¼ miles WNW of Beaminster.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childerley Cambridgeshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDERLEY, a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridge; 3 ¼ miles NE of Caxton, and 4 ½ WSW of Oakington r. station. Post-town, Dry Drayton, under Cambridge. Acres, 1,052. Eeal property, £1,170. Pop., 50. Houses, 10. The parish is a meet for the Cambridge hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £20. Patron, N. Calvert, Esq. The church is in ruins.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childrey Berkshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDREY, a parish in Wantage district, Berks; on the Berks and Wilts canal, near the Ridge-way, 1 ¾ mile S of Faringdon Road r. station, and 2 ½ W of Wantage. It has a post-office under Wantage. Acres, 2,850. Real property, £3,419. Pop., 504. Houses, 129. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Fettiplaces. Charles I. made his quarters here on his way to Abingdon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £604. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church shows Norman traces; is good; and contains a canopied brass, eight other brasses, and a figured leaden font. There are schools and charities, founded by the Fettiplaces, of unreported value; and other charities, £20. Pocock, the orientalist, was rector.

Lowen Roger Executed for Murder Newgate Calendar Savage Henry 1926

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ROGER LOWEN Executed for Murder

WAS a native of Hanover, where he was born about the year 1667, and educated in the principles of the Lutheran religion. His father being huntsman to the Duke of Zell, that prince sent young Lowen into France, to obtain the qualifications of a gentleman, and, on his return from his travels, he was one of the pages under the duke's master of the horse.
Coming over to England when he was between twenty and thirty years of age, the Duke of Shrewsbury patronised and procured him a place. Having thus obtained something like a settlement, he married a young English woman, with whom he lived in an affectionate manner for a considerable time; but in the year 1697, on his going abroad to attend King William at the treaty of Ryswick, he left Mrs. Lowen with her cousin, who was married to Mr. Richard Lloyd, of Turnham Green.

When Lowen returned from Holland, he became, with what justice we cannot say, extremely jealous of his wife and he pretended to have received incontestable proof of her criminal conversation with Mr. Lloyd, for the murder of whom he was indicted at the Old Bailey, on the 2Oth of September, 1706, and was tried by a jury composed equally of Englishmen and foreigners.

Gray Arthur convicted of Burglary Newgate Calendar Savage Henry 1926

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ARTHUR GRAY
Convicted of Burglary

IN December, 1721, the prisoner was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of George Baillie, Esq., in the parish of St. James, Westminster, with intent to ravish Grizel, the wife of Alexander Murray.

Mrs. Murray was the sister of Mrs. Baillie, and lived in the house of her brother-in-law, in the absence of her husband, who was a military officer.

It was sworn on the trial that, about four in the morning of the 14th of October, the prisoner entered Mrs. Murray's room, with a drawn sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, and threatened to kill her if she made any noise; that she asked him the meaning of such a procedure, to which he replied, "Madam, I mean to ravish you, for I have entertained a violent passion for you a long time; but, as there is so great a difference between your fortune and mine, I despair of enjoying my wishes by any means but force."

On this the lady remonstrated with him; but, persisting in his intention, he laid the sword on the bolster, and attempted to pull off the bed-clothes; but Mrs. Murray pushed him against the wall, wrenched the pistol out of his hand, and rang the bell; on which the prisoner quitted the room; but she followed him to the door, and called out murder, by which the family were alarmed.

Childs Ercall Shropshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDS-ERCALL, a parish in Market-Drayton district, Salop; near the river Tern, 6 ½ miles S of Market-Drayton, and 6 ½ NW by N of Newport r. station. It has a post-office under Market-Drayton. Acres, 3,633. Real property, £5,101. Pop., 470. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfleld. Value, £66. Patron, R. Corbet, Esq. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childswickham Gloucestershire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDS-WICKHAM a village and a, parish in Evesham district, Gloucester. The village stands on the verge of the county, 1 ¾ mile WNW of Broadway, and 5 WSW of Honeybourne r. station. The parish includes also the hamlet of Mircott; and its post-town is Broadway. Acres, 2,040. Real property, £3,049. Pop., 440. Houses, 92. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £246. Patrons, the Representatives of the Rev. J. H. Tucker. The church is neat and tolerably good. Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chilham Kent Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILHAM, a village and a parish in East Ashford district, Kent. The village stands near the river Stour and the Ramsgate and Hastings railway, 6 ½ miles SW by S of Canterbury; is the Cilleham of the Saxons; was once a market-town; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Canterbury, and a fair on 8 Nov. The parish comprises 4,332 acres. Real property. £7,502. Pop., 1,319. Houses, 256. The property is divided among a few.

Chillenden Kent Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILLENDEN, a parish in Eastry district, Kent; 2 ¾ miles ENE of Adisham r. station, and 6 ½ W of Deal. Post-town, Goodnestone, under Sandwich. Acres, 196. Pop., 127. Houses, 29. The parish gave name to a famous prior of Canterbury, who died in 1411. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £130. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church belonged to the priory of Leeds; and is a very small late Norman structure, with E. perpendicular windows.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Childwall Lancashire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILDWALL, a township in West Derby district and a parish in West Derby and Prescot districts, Lancashire. The township lies adjacent to the Liverpool and Manchester railway, between Broad Green and Roby stations, 4 ¼ miles E of Liverpool. Acres, 828. Real property, £3,198. Pop., 174. Houses, 25. The parish includes also the townships of Wavertree, Allerton, Garston, Speke, Hale, Halewood, Little Woolton, and Much Woolton; extends from the suburbs of Liverpool, 9 miles up the Mersey; and contains the post-offices of Wavertree, Garston, Broad-Green, Woolton, Grassendale, and Halewood under Liverpool, and Hale under Warrington. Acres, 19,327; of which 6,850 are water. Real property, £119,561. Pop., 17,917. Houses, 3,115. The property is much subdivided.

Chilford Cambridgeshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILFORD, a hundred in Cambridge. It lies round Linton; adjoins Essex and Suffolk; and contains eleven parishes. Acres, 21,935. Pop., 5,776. Houses, 1,217.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chilfroome Dorset Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILFROOME, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the Roman road to Bath, the river Frome and the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, 1 mile NW of Maiden-Newton r. station, and 5 WSW of Cerne-Abbas. Post-town, Maiden-Newton, under Dorchester. Acres, 940. Real property, £1,269. Pop., 120. Houses, 27. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £200. Patron, J. Pinckney, Esq.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chillaton Devon Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILLATON, a hamlet in Milton-Abbot parish, Devon.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chilgrove Sussex Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILGROVE, a tything in West Dean parish, Sussex; 6 ½ miles N of Chichester. It has a post-office under Chichester. Pop., 130. Roman urns have been found here.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Chilhampton Wiltshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

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CHILHAMPTON, a tything in South Newton parish, Wilts; 1 mile N of Wilton.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].