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  • After staying punctually through the performance in the Tottenham Court Road Theatre, sighing over the enchanting looks of Mademoiselle, the friends adjourned to a neighbouring public-house, and from thence to a tavern known as Offley's, famous for its Burton ale.

    The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865

  • Mademoiselle, the friends adjourned to a neighbouring public-house, and from thence to a tavern known as Offley's, famous for its Burton ale.

    The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856

  • General Nelson died at his seat, "Offley," in Hanover County, January

    Virginia and Virginians 1888

  • The Nelson mansion descended to the eldest son of President Nelson, the glorious patriot, General Thomas Nelson, Jr., and was his residence until the threatened dangers of the prospective siege of York prompted the removal of his family to "Offley," in Hanover county.

    Virginia and Virginians 1888

  • After all, values are relative, and could Mrs. Sarah (Offley-Thoroughgood-Gookin)

    Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

  • Stahl was taken to the office of Superintendent Offley in the presence of Mr. Sandford, who was asked to take part in the proceedings in the interests of fair play, although he was not then

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

  • Lord Spencer, Mr. Heneage, Offley, &c., are des culs de plomb, and the bankers 'coaches are not ordered till about six in the morning.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • Salisbury, of Offley, and many other men of title, besides local and county family names not a few.

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

  • The unusual purposes, to which jewels might be put, is recounted in a record of the sale of Mrs. Moseley's jewels to Colonel Francis Yeardley, who desired them as a gift to his wife, Sarah (Offley), widow successively of John Gookin and Adam Thoroughgood.

    Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

  • _Offley, Little_, is a hamlet 1¼ mile N.W. from the above.

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

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