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(St.) Giles' Well
Mentioned in Circuit of St. Giles' parish in Strype, ed 1720, 1. iii. 87. Qy. = Crowder's Well? ...

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hopping giles
A jeering appellation given to any person who limps, or is lame; St. Giles was the patron of cripple...

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(St.) Giles' without Aldersgate
Parish mentioned 23 H. VIII. 1532 (L. and P. H. VIII. V. 449). Qy. = St. Giles' without Cripplegate...

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(St.) Giles' without Cripplegate
On the south side of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First mention: Gran...

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Fletcher, Giles and Phineas
(1588?-1623) (1582-1650) Poets, were the sons of Giles F., himself a minor poet, and Envoy to Russi...

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Kingston, William Henry Giles
(1814-1880) Writer of tales for boys, b. in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where hi...

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The Bell, St. Giles' Cripplegate
Messuage called the signe of the Bell and a garden in parish of St. Giles Without Cripplegate, 1565 ...

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(St.) Giles' Hospital, without Cripplegate
A hospital of the French order founded temp. Edward I., afterwards suppressed with other alien prior...

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(St.) Giles' without Cripplegate Churchyard
On the south and west sides of the church. In Cripplegate Ward Without, bounded by the City Wall on ...

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Pool by St. Giles' Churchyard
Mentioned by Stow, p. 16, as having been in existence in 1244, but in his time stopped up, and the s...

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Boss of Water, St, Giles' Cripplegate
In the wall of the churchyard, made 1423 at the charges of Richard Whitington (S. 17, 303). Afterwa...

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