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  • School is fortunately situated in the immediate neighbourhood of a famous place of instruction called Tothill (vulgarly Tuttle) Fields, where every species of refined lewdness and debauchery, and manners the most depraved, are constantly exhibited; consequently they enjoy the great advantages of learning the slang language, and of hearing prime chaunts, rum glees, and kiddy catches, in the purest and most bang up style.

    Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

  • The name was spelt in a great variety of ways, such as Tothill, Tuthill, Tottle, Tathyll, and Tottell.

    A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

  • Chance had in fact brought the von Uffenbach brothers in collision with Pitt himself two weeks previous, at Tothill Fields, where people were electing a new member of Parliament to the lower house.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Chance had in fact brought the von Uffenbach brothers in collision with Pitt himself two weeks previous, at Tothill Fields, where people were electing a new member of Parliament to the lower house.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Chance had in fact brought the von Uffenbach brothers in collision with Pitt himself two weeks previous, at Tothill Fields, where people were electing a new member of Parliament to the lower house.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Her driver made some evasive manoeuvres round Tothill, Dartmouth and Old Queen Streets, but he was dealing with experts in the field of pursuit.

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • A recent bibliography of Erythrina (Agishi and Tothill, 1991) contained a total of 344 entries and no fewer than 97 papers referred to alkaloids and medicinal uses, although few of these were concerned with anti-nutritive factors.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • Tothill to tell him of Australia's "horror" at the killings.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • The Reverend and Mrs Octavius Godolphin were staying in Tothill Street, at Mrs Paul's Lodgings, a most respectable house that ministered to the visiting clergy, and the Reverend and Mrs Godolphin, whose children were grown and gone from home, were delighted to offer their sheltering wings to Miss Gibbons.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

  • The entrance to Tothill Street marks the site of the gatehouse or prison of the monastery, in which many illustrious prisoners were confined before its demolition, in 1777.

    Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

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