Lamb, Lady Caroline

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• Lamb

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• Lamb, Charles

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• Lamb Alley

  1) West out of Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, at No. 144 (O.S. 1880, and N. and Q. 11th S...

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• Lamb Court

  1) North out of Lamb Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). First mention:...

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• lamb down

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• cosset-lamb

  colt a cade lamb or colt brought up by hand. Norf. and SufF. ...

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• gimmer-lamb

  a ewe-lamb ; also a two years old sheep. N. ...

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• lamb-storms

  storms which happen about the time when lambs fall. North, and Norf. ...

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• Lady-killer

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• Elect lady

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• Morgan, Lady (Sydney Owenson)

  (1780?-1859) Novelist, dau. of Robert Owenson, an actor, was the author of several vivacious Irish ...

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• old lady

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• Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan)

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• Baillie, Lady Grizel

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• Bury, Lady Charlotte

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• Fullerton, Lady Georgiana (Leveson-Gower)

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• Guest, Lady Charlotte(Bertie)

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• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (Pierrepont)

  (1690-1762) Letter-writer, was the eldest dau. of the 1st Duke of Kingston. In her youth she combin...

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• Scott, Lady John (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode)

  (1801-1900) M. Lord John Scott. She was the writer of a number of Scottish songs characterised by t...

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• Lady Bitch's House

  Opposite Banister's Court, now or later the dwelling of Dr. Salmon, a good large building, with a gr...

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• Lady Holles' School

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• lady, puppy's mamma

  Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. ...

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• lady dacre's wine

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• pig-faced lady

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• Lamb Yard, Lamb's Yard, Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate

  See Lamb Court. ...

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• Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne (Bowles)

  (1786-1854) Poetess, dau. of a captain in the navy, submitted a poem, Ellen Fitzarthur to Southey (...

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• Praed, Mrs. Rosa Caroline Mackworth ("Mrs. Campbell Praed")

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• lady of easy virtue

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• Hoare's Yard, Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate

  See Smith's Buildings and Slade's Buildings. ...

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• Lamb Court, Hart Street, Cripplegate

  See Lamb's Chapel Court. ...

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• Sugar Loaf Court, Lamb Alley

  West out of Lamb Mley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed 1720, I. ii. 108-Lond. Guide, 1758). ...

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• lady of the gun-room

  A gunner's mate, who takes charge of the after-scuttle, where gunners' stores are kept. ...

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• Provision made for the collection of weekly alms for the support of the Chapel of Our Lady near Guildhall founded "pur tote la compaignie du Pui" (ib.).

  Henry le Waleis gave to the Confraternity of the Pui (de Podio) 5 marks annual quit rent on all his ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.