The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 20Verner & Hood, 1813 |
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... William the Conqueror had by his sword made good his claim to the English crown , and confiscated the estates of the Saxon nobility and gentry throughout the kingdom , in order to reward the valor or fidelity of his principal officers ...
... William the Conqueror had by his sword made good his claim to the English crown , and confiscated the estates of the Saxon nobility and gentry throughout the kingdom , in order to reward the valor or fidelity of his principal officers ...
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... William the Conqueror , with Roger de Britolio , earl of Hereford , Waltheof , earl of Northumberland , and some other persons of high rank . Their design to kill William , or to drive him out of the realm , was , however , soon quashed ...
... William the Conqueror , with Roger de Britolio , earl of Hereford , Waltheof , earl of Northumberland , and some other persons of high rank . Their design to kill William , or to drive him out of the realm , was , however , soon quashed ...
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... William the Conqueror , free of expense from the quarries of Barnack , in Northamptonshire ; and it was in a state of sufficient forwardness to receive the sacred remains in 1095. This was the last removal , as the church now erected ...
... William the Conqueror , free of expense from the quarries of Barnack , in Northamptonshire ; and it was in a state of sufficient forwardness to receive the sacred remains in 1095. This was the last removal , as the church now erected ...
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... William the Conqueror . Ste- phen , in his seventeenth year , gave authority for two additional mints to be set up in Bury . Stow informs us , that there was one in the town in king John's time . Edward I. and II . also had mints at ...
... William the Conqueror . Ste- phen , in his seventeenth year , gave authority for two additional mints to be set up in Bury . Stow informs us , that there was one in the town in king John's time . Edward I. and II . also had mints at ...
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... William the Conqueror , at the same time that the ab- bey - church was first built of stone , when Albold , a man of rank , and a priest , is said to have made by permission of abbot Baldwin , a tower of no small size . † It stands ...
... William the Conqueror , at the same time that the ab- bey - church was first built of stone , when Albold , a man of rank , and a priest , is said to have made by permission of abbot Baldwin , a tower of no small size . † It stands ...
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Page 277 - While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow). I seem through consecrated walks to rove ; I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound, I roam from shade to shade, By godlike poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.
Page 90 - ... shire ? Some only for not being drown'd, And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were...
Page 105 - King of England, after he had escaped the swords of his merciless rebels, and his forces received a fatal overthrow at Worcester, September the 3d, 1651, was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, departed this life the 26th day of July, 1674.
Page 21 - Extent and Boundaries. — England (including Wales) is bounded on the north by Scotland ; on the west by the Irish Sea, St George's Channel, and the Atlantic Ocean ; on the south by the English Channel ; and on the east by the German Ocean.
Page 199 - Topographer, containing a Variety of Original Articles, illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England...
Page 32 - Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, Regard this tomb, where Collins, hapless name, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature gave him, and though science taught, The fire of fancy, and the reach of thought, Severely doom'd to penury's extreme, He pass'd in...
Page 110 - a notable man, at a thanksgiving dinner," writes a pamphleteer of the time quoted by Lysons, "having terrible long teeth, and a prodigious stomach to turn the archbishop's chapel into a kitchen, and to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel.
Page 1 - Thirty-eight parishes or places maintain all, or part of, their poor in workhouses. The number of persons so maintained, during the year ending Easter 1803, was 1131, and the expense incurred therein, amounted to 12,1247. 8s. 8£rf. being at the rate of 101. 14s. &{d. for each person maintained in that manner.
Page 76 - Destitute, an asylum for persons discharged from prison, or from the hulks ; for unfortunate and deserted females, and others, who, from loss of character, or extreme indigence, cannot procure an honest maintenance, though willing to work.
Page 71 - Monday came, all was well. Tuesday came, he not sick. Wednesday came, and still he was well ; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in the teeth.