Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...

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Page 225 - Green. A report was received that a small camp in this parish, described as close to the " Roman road " from Gloucester to Chepstow on land belonging to the Crown, was being used for dumping refuse, greatly to its disfigurement. The matter was at once represented to the authorities concerned, and Mr. LS Osmaston, Deputy Surveyor of the Forest of Dean, has informed the Committee that instructions have been issued putting a stop to the practice complained of. HAMPSHIRE. — Mr. Heywood Sumner, FSA,...
Page 232 - University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. ALBANY F. MAJOR (Hon. Secretary to the Committee), BIFROST, 30, THE WALDRONS, CLASSIFICATION. The classification of defensive works recommended by the Committee now stands as follows : — A. Fortresses partly inaccessible by reason of precipices, cliffs, or water, defended in part only by artificial works. B. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural...
Page 128 - that the alteration, change and amendment of the same, and converting to good and godly uses, as in erecting of Grammar Schools to the education of youths in virtue and godliness, the further augmenting of the Universities, and better provision for the poor and needy...
Page 224 - RE, who, after being badly wounded last year on the Somme, is now attached for duty at the War Office. Thanks are once more due to Mr. George Clinch, FGS, Librarian of the Society of Antiquaries and Assistant Treasurer of the Congress of Archaeological Societies, for assisting in the preparation of the Bibliography; to Lieut. AG Chater, RNVR, for help given to the Honorary Secretary in the compilation of this Report ; and to the representatives of affiliated Societies and other correspondents for...
Page 232 - Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period). D. Forts consisting only of a mount with encircling moat or fosse. E. Fortified mounts, wholly or partly artificial, with remains of an attached court or bailey, or showing two or more such courts. F. Homestead moats, consisting of simple or compound enclosures formed into artificial islands by water moats. G. Enclosures, mostly rectangular, partaking of the form of F, but protected by stronger...
Page 150 - With the return of Charles II., himself a Catholic, came a religious toleration : ambassadors from Roman Catholic sovereigns had mass publicly performed in their respective chapels, attended by regular congregations, and baptisms and marriages were openly celebrated in...
Page 50 - There were abuses stated by a writer at the beginning of the last century, but it was not till towards the end of the century that some very fatal abuses prevailed.
Page 162 - Here the priest shall kiss the corporals on the right side and the top of the chalice, and afterward the deacon, saying. Peace be to thee and to the Church of God. Answer. And with thy spirit.
Page 2 - Australia 1927 University of Minnesota per Messrs. G. & E. Stechert & Co., 2 Star Yard, Carey Street, Chancery Lane, London, WC 1932 The Library, American Museum of Natural History 77th Street, and Central Park West, New York City, New York, USA 1935 The University of Loudon Library per Messrs.
Page 128 - Christ, and by devising and phantasying vain opinions of purgatory and masses satisfactory to be done for them which be departed, the which doctrine and vain opinion by nothing more is maintained and upholden, than by the abuse of trentals, chantries, and other provisions made for the continuance of the said blindness and ignorance...

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