The History of SuffolkE. Stock, 1895 - 287 pages |
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... existing , most are of the round character , and may be assigned without much risk to this tribe . On Barnham Common may be found the im- perfect remains of an important exception , a group of three long barrows , generally referred to ...
... existing , most are of the round character , and may be assigned without much risk to this tribe . On Barnham Common may be found the im- perfect remains of an important exception , a group of three long barrows , generally referred to ...
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... existing chief at the time of the shipwreck . The failure of the testamentary scheme for the preser- vation of his family , through the greed of the Roman soldiers , of itself shows that there was both real and personal wealth among the ...
... existing chief at the time of the shipwreck . The failure of the testamentary scheme for the preser- vation of his family , through the greed of the Roman soldiers , of itself shows that there was both real and personal wealth among the ...
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... existing road , if tolerable , will hold its own for a long while , in spite of indirectness . Houses have sprung up in its vicinity , grain- stores , smithies , and , above all , taverns . There are three stations in the Antonine ...
... existing road , if tolerable , will hold its own for a long while , in spite of indirectness . Houses have sprung up in its vicinity , grain- stores , smithies , and , above all , taverns . There are three stations in the Antonine ...
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... existing evidence . The name , in the first place , is of an unusual type , there being only eight other similar instances in the whole of Antonine's Itinerary . Of these , seven are in North Africa , and the eighth , Rostrata Villa ...
... existing evidence . The name , in the first place , is of an unusual type , there being only eight other similar instances in the whole of Antonine's Itinerary . Of these , seven are in North Africa , and the eighth , Rostrata Villa ...
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... existing names of villages . Though the detail of the Yggdrasil , or mystic ash , comes to us from a Scandinavian source , yet it is so intermingled with the myth of Odin , the great god common to the Teutonic race , and the ash is of ...
... existing names of villages . Though the detail of the Yggdrasil , or mystic ash , comes to us from a Scandinavian source , yet it is so intermingled with the myth of Odin , the great god common to the Teutonic race , and the ash is of ...
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Page 121 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down.
Page 273 - Huntingdonshire, on a bright day last autumn [says the picturesque Tourist], I saw sitting on wooden benches, in front of their Bastille and within their ring-wall and its railings, some half-hundred or more of these men. Tall robust figures, young mostly or of middle age; of honest countenance, many of them thoughtful and even intelligent-looking men. They sat there, near by one another; but in a kind of torpor, especially in a silence, which was very striking. In silence: for, alas, what word was...
Page 196 - Our good people be not disturbed, letted or discouraged from any lawful recreation, such as Dancing (either men or women), Archery for men, Leaping, Vaulting, or any other such harmless...
Page 196 - Church ; and as for our good people's lawful recreation, our pleasure likewise is, that after the end of divine service our good people be not disturbed, letted or discouraged from any lawful recreation, such as dancing, either men or women ; archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation, nor from having of May-games, Whitsun-ales, and Morris-dances ; and the setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used : so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without...
Page 196 - God: prohibiting in like sort the said recreations to any that, though conform in religion, are not present in the church at the service of God, before their going to the said recreations.
Page 196 - And likewise we bar from this benefit and liberty all such known Recusants, either men or women, as will abstain from coming to church or divine service, being therefore unworthy of any lawful recreation after the said service, that will not first come to the church and serve God...
Page 180 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay. That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St.
Page 196 - ... the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used: so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service; and that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom.
Page 197 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.
Page 152 - ... which caused the people greatly to murmur, and specially in Suffolk, for if the Duke of Norfolk had not wisely appeased them, no doubt but they had fallen to some rioting. When the king's council was advertised of...