| Thomas Hearne - 1772 - 490 páginas
...one Hundred and Twenty Years, occafioned a great Refort of Company to her Houfe. It was her Cuftom to thread a very fine Needle, without the Help of Spectacles, and to prefent it to her Guefts, who, in return, gave her fome, Gratuity towards her Support. In the later... | |
| William Huddesford - 1772 - 492 páginas
...one Hundred and Twenty Years, occafioned a great Rcfort of Company to her Houfe. It was her Cuftom to thread a very fine Needle, without the Help of Spectacles, and to prefent it to her Guefts, who, in return, gave her fomc Gratuity towards her Support. In the later... | |
| Anthony à Wood, Sir John Peshall - 1773 - 522 páginas
...Faculties at the Age of 120 Years occafioned a great Refort of Company to her Houfe.— It was herCuftom to thread a very fine Needle without the Help of Spectacles, and to prefent it to her Guefts, who, in Return, gave her fome Gratuity towards her Support. In the latter... | |
| Rev. John Walker - 1806 - 268 páginas
...and twenty years; a circumstance which occasioned a great resort of company to her house. She used to thread a very fine needle, without the help of...present it to her guests, who in return, gave her some gratuity towards her support. L1V. ACADEMICAL DISSENTIONSt When the Divinity School was building so... | |
| 1810 - 430 páginas
...an" cient dame, living in Black Boy-lane. The " perfect use of all her faculties at the age of 120 '* years, occasioned a great resort of company to '*...return, " gave her some small gratuity, towards her sup" port. In the latter end of her life, she re**' moved into St. Peter's-le-Bailey, and died by "... | |
| 1859 - 270 páginas
...north end of St. Giles's to Rats and Mice Hill. The perfect use of all her faculties at the age of 120 years, occasioned a great resort of company to her...gave her some small gratuity towards her support, lu the latter end of her life she removed into St. Peter's-le-Bailey, and died by an accidental fall,... | |
| 1839 - 246 páginas
...north end of St. Giles's to Rats and Mice Hill. The perfect use of all her faculties at the age of 120 years, occasioned a great resort of company to her...died by an accidental fall, which injured her back." There is also a fine painting of Christ Healing the Sick at the pool of Bethesda, by Dirk Van Delen... | |
| Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1894 - 602 páginas
...to Rats and Mice hill : the perfect use of all her faculties, at the age of one hundred and twenty years, occasioned a great resort of company to her...without the help of spectacles, and to present it her guests, who in return gave her some gratuity towards her support. In the later end of her life,... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1928 - 380 páginas
...died [in her noih year, July 12, 1691] by an accidental fall which injured her back. . . . She used to thread a very fine needle, without the help of...present it to her guests, who in return gave her some gratuity towards her support.' Granger states that Cabbage-hall (situated directly opposite the London... | |
| Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1894 - 612 páginas
...to Rats and Mice hill : the perfect use of all her faculties, at the age of one hundred and twenty years, occasioned a great resort of company to her...without the help of spectacles, and to present it her guests, who in return gave her some gratuity towards her support. In the later end of her life,... | |
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