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Page 5 - Many of the Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies of the yearly Index to issue with their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the less will be the cost of the Index to each society.
Page 70 - ... and then ward to Thomas Lord Howard, duke of Norfolk, was by a great mischaunce slayne at Thetford, in the house of Sir Richard Falmenstone, Knt.
Page 157 - PM. I was made a Free Mason at Warrington in Lancashire, with Coll: Henry Mainwaring of Karnicham in Cheshire.
Page 5 - ... and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series. To make this work complete an index of the transactions from the beginning of archaeological societies down to the year 1890 needs to be published. This Index is already completed...
Page 86 - Ferrara became and for a hundred and fifty years — from the middle of the fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century...
Page 220 - Quarterly, first and fourth quarterly, Argent and Gules, in the second and third a fret, Or ; over all, on a bend, Sable, three Escalops of the first ; for Spencer.
Page 5 - Index to archaeologists is now recognised. Every effort is made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious that the difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year...
Page 193 - I recommend to the earth to be buried in Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors...
Page 5 - Every effort is made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious that the difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong, the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this...
Page 177 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true' matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.