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14th cent Alabaster Arch armorial seal Auckland beneath bishop of Durham Bishop Skirlaw blazoned Brancepeth brass carved castle chancel chevron chevron between three Christopher Conyers CHURCH Clay Comp Conyers crest cross patonce crosses crosslet daughter and co-heiress daughter and heiress daughter of Sir died Dugdale Durham Cathedral Durham Seals Durham Visits earl of Westmorland editor effigy Elizabeth England quarterly engrailed ermine feet rest fess between three fleur-de-lis Frosterley gold gules Henry Hilton Ibid impaling silver inscription Jenyn's Joan Beaufort knight lady lion rampant lord Lumley lord Neville Margaret married molet Monumental Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland orle Pedigree Peer Percy plate facing probably quarter Records Series Richard II roll of Richard S.S. Publs saltire saltire silver-Neville shield is blazoned shield of arms side silver and azure Sir John Sir William Sockburn south aisle Staindrop Surtees three escallops tomb Unknown Freestone vert Willement's roll
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Page xv - The peoples fable, and the spoyle of all ! And though your frames do for a time make warre Gainst Time, yet Time in time shall ruinate Your workes and names, and your last reliques marre. My sad desires, rest therefore moderate ! For if that Time make ende of things so sure, It als will end the paine which I endure.
Page 81 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 171 - ... (681). The most diverse judgments have been passed on this person, as likewise on Brunhild. Like that queen, he is known to us only through his enemies. By reaction, the attempt has been made to turn him into a great statesman. His designs, if he had any beyond his personal ambition, are unknown to us. All that can be said, is that he was a man of exceptional energy and ferocity, and that with him Neustria, which hated him, lost its hegemony. Indeed, neither Waratton nor his son Gislemarus, who...
Page 105 - Niseham ° apon Tese a 3. miles : and fo. 78. then a v. miles to Darington by pure good corne. Durham. Daringtond bridge of stone is, as I remembre, of 3. arches. it is the best market town in the bisshoprick, saving Duresme. There is an exceding long and fair altare stone de vario marmore, hoc est, nigro albis maculis distincto, at the high altare in the collegiate paroche chirch of Darington.
Page 68 - Ralph Neville, first earl of Westmorland, and his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and his wife, Catherine Roelt, widow of Sir Hugh Swynford.
Page 76 - Neville, fourth son of Ralph, first Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt.
Page 101 - Toune of Chester is chiefly one Streate of very meane Building yn lenght : ther is beside a smaul Streat or 2. about the Chirch that is collegiatid, and hath a Dene and Prebendaries, but it is of a very meane Building ; and yn the Body of the Chirch is a Tumbe with the Image of a Bishop yn token that S. Cuthberth ons was buried or remained in his Feretre there.
Page 2 - Staiudrop , in the county of Durham, where a stately monument to his memory yet remains. He married, for his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, and by her he had a numerous family...
Page xxviii - And also the said carvers shall make an arch of alabaster above all the said tomb in length and breadth, with pendants and knots and a crest of faytes and other work pertaining to such a tomb, the which images, tomb and arch shall be proportioned, gilded, painted, and arrayed with colours well and sufficiently in the pure, honest, and profitable manner that pertains to such work.
Page xii - Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the County of Northumberland in 1615 and 1666. Edited by Joseph Foster, Newcastle, ND OFF.