The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 20Verner & Hood, 1813 |
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... reign of six years , he was basely murdered by the hand of a relation . The honor of giving Christianity a permanent footing in East - Anglia was reserved for Sigbrecht , or Sigebert , the successor of Eorpwald . This prince was the son ...
... reign of six years , he was basely murdered by the hand of a relation . The honor of giving Christianity a permanent footing in East - Anglia was reserved for Sigbrecht , or Sigebert , the successor of Eorpwald . This prince was the son ...
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... reign of Henry II . about the year 1173 , Robert , Earl of Leicester , having taken part with Henry , the eldest son of that monarch , whose ambition , inflamed by the king of France , tempted him to aspire to the throne of his father ...
... reign of Henry II . about the year 1173 , Robert , Earl of Leicester , having taken part with Henry , the eldest son of that monarch , whose ambition , inflamed by the king of France , tempted him to aspire to the throne of his father ...
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... reign of queen Elizabeth , had greatly distin- guished himself as a naval officer , especially in the memorable engagement with the Spanish armada in 1588. He also com- manded a squadron destined to attack the Spanish plate fleet in ...
... reign of queen Elizabeth , had greatly distin- guished himself as a naval officer , especially in the memorable engagement with the Spanish armada in 1588. He also com- manded a squadron destined to attack the Spanish plate fleet in ...
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... reign , and that of Erpenwald , who succeeded him , because Reynhere had been killed in a battle with Ethelfred , king of Northumberland , fought near the river Idle , in Nottinghamshire . Erpenwald having been convinced by Edwin , king ...
... reign , and that of Erpenwald , who succeeded him , because Reynhere had been killed in a battle with Ethelfred , king of Northumberland , fought near the river Idle , in Nottinghamshire . Erpenwald having been convinced by Edwin , king ...
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... reign , and died in 1746 . Contiguous to his house he had a very fine bowling - green ; and was one of the last gentlemen of any fashion in this county who amused themselves with that diversion . To the proprietor of this mansion ...
... reign , and died in 1746 . Contiguous to his house he had a very fine bowling - green ; and was one of the last gentlemen of any fashion in this county who amused themselves with that diversion . To the proprietor of this mansion ...
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Page 279 - 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 92 - ... 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 107 - 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 23 - 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 200 - 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 112 - 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 3 - 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 78 - 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 73 - 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.