The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 22A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county. |
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familiar to us in Biblical language , and he lived in the service of God in Ripon , until his death took place in a great pestilence.1 In 678 appeared the great comet , which has reappeared about every seventy - five years , and is ...
familiar to us in Biblical language , and he lived in the service of God in Ripon , until his death took place in a great pestilence.1 In 678 appeared the great comet , which has reappeared about every seventy - five years , and is ...
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... forty years having passed since he had consecrated the church.2 And with Wilfrid's death closes the most important chapter in the history of the church of Ripon . After the time of his biographers the records become very scanty .
... forty years having passed since he had consecrated the church.2 And with Wilfrid's death closes the most important chapter in the history of the church of Ripon . After the time of his biographers the records become very scanty .
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Immediately after the death of their father , both hastened to enforce their claims . But they were unable to succeed , and Olaf fled to Ireland , after having held his own for just six months . Guthrod surrendered to Athelstan ...
Immediately after the death of their father , both hastened to enforce their claims . But they were unable to succeed , and Olaf fled to Ireland , after having held his own for just six months . Guthrod surrendered to Athelstan ...
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And the same rule remained in force after his death , under his son Edward . But , inasmuch as Athelstan came to the throne when quite young , men thought that they could take liberties ; and many who had previously been submissive ...
And the same rule remained in force after his death , under his son Edward . But , inasmuch as Athelstan came to the throne when quite young , men thought that they could take liberties ; and many who had previously been submissive ...
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On the death of the Earl , the men of the ambush gave way , and fled among the Scots , pursued by Egill and his Vikings . The flying men broke the Scottish line , and the men stituting it made no determined stand .
On the death of the Earl , the men of the ambush gave way , and fled among the Scots , pursued by Egill and his Vikings . The flying men broke the Scottish line , and the men stituting it made no determined stand .
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Page 126 - The Society was formed in 1899 for the purpose of printing the older Registers of the County. The following have been either issued or are in the press :— York (St.
Page 248 - Death. King Eirik had many people about him, for he kept many Northmen who had come with him from the East ; and also many of his friends had joined him from Norway. But as he had little land, he went on a cruise every summer, and plundered in Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland, and Bretland, by which he gathered property. King Athelstan died on a sick bed, after a reign of fourteen years, eight weeks, and three days.* After him his brother Jatmund + was king of England, and he was no friend to the...
Page 235 - I and 4, argent three chevronels braced in base sable, on a chief of the second as many mullets of the first, Danby ; 2 and 3, gules six billets ermine, three, two, and one (Britlevile).
Page 384 - He was the second son of Ralph Neville, first Earl of Westmorland by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, and...
Page 282 - Item to the Frères of Richmond xx s. To everych of the iiij Frères of York xx s. Item to be disposed for that that I have been occupied in the worlde, and taken men's money, and not done so effectually for it as I ought to have done, * A great and wealthy lawyer.
Page 391 - Rieval enjoy on the north bank. But the situation of the place rendered this impossible ; the two houses were too near each other to allow of it, for at every hour of the day and night the one convent could hear the bells of the other; and this was unseemly, and could not in any way long be borne.
Page 249 - and as the king went homewards, then the army of York overtook him ; the rear of the king's forces was at Chesterford, and there they made great slaughter. Then was the king so wrath that he would have marched his forces in again, and wholly destroyed the land.
Page 53 - ... faciebat in carcere. Traxit se in medium carceris, et sibilabat fortiter : et factum : est lumen in carcere ab igne, qui exibat de ore draconis .... draco ore aperto posuit os suum super caput...
Page 25 - Anlaf, over the ocean, in the ship's bosom, this land sought fated to the fight. Five lay on the battle-stead, youthful kings, by swords in slumber laid : so seven eke of Anlaf...
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