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  • The besieged sallied out in the night with a strong party, and disturbed the enemy in their works, and partly ruined one of their forts, called Ewer's Fort, where the besiegers were laying a bridge over the River Colne.

    Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696

  • The besieged sallied out in the night with a strong party, and disturbed the enemy in their works, and partly ruined one of their forts, called Ewer’s Fort, where the besiegers were laying a bridge over the River Colne.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • The besieged sallied out in the night with a strong party, and disturbed the enemy in their works, and partly ruined one of their forts, called Ewer’s Fort, where the besiegers were laying a bridge over the River Colne.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • Ewer Street Car Park, SE1, SatSRBrighton-based experimentalists Bitter Disko are creating their own take on the style of legendary New York clubs from the late-70s and early-80s such as Mudd and Danceteria.

    Clubs picks of the week 2012

  • The main two arches at Ewer Street will be taken over by two of the UK's most respected soundsystems.

    Clubs picks of the week 2012

  • Small studies of the pulse oximetry test – in which sensors are placed on a hand and foot – have proved inconclusive, so the National Institute for Health Research funded the study by Andrew Ewer and colleagues from Birmingham University and Birmingham Women's hospital to determine whether it would be useful for the NHS.

    Heart test could save babies' lives 2011

  • Setting up shop in the Ewer Street Warehouse this Friday night until 5am, the Warehouse Project will be bringing with them local heroes Delphic, who'll be heading up Room 1 with a live set of their taut Rainy City rave sounds.

    Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010

  • I wrote to Dr. Lanagan & requested he'd write to this Lady, & recommend Mr. Ewer to her as being the only clergyman qualified to officiate, and also to withdraw her protection from Power &c.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • In reporting on the satisfactory "progress of religion" in the Catholic mission at Ferryland, for example, Father Thomas Ewer was able to boast to his superiors in 1796 of making considerable inroads in the Protestant population: The many fruitless attempts of Methodist Preachers have been successfully baffled & there is now but one of that sect in the district of Ferryland & Trepassey whose family became Catholic this year.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • In 1788, Father Phelan, the Franciscan Superior at Waterford, wrote to Archbishop Troy of Dublin: I was advised to write to Doctor Lanagan [Bishop of Ossory] in favour of Mr Ewer & had that interest been gain'd, Power must, all at once, fall to the ground: Viz a lady of great influence lives in Feriland by name, a Widow Weston a Roman Catholik & a native of Kilkeny [Power's home county].

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

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