The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 14Yorkshire Archaeological Society., 1898 A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county. |
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2.-Facsimile Edit acres of meadow aged Alderman Allerthorpe bordars bovates bovates of land buried caru carucates for geld carucates of land chancel church clerestory daughter died eight carucates Elizabeth five carucates five ploughs five shillings four carucates four ploughs four villanes Gamel Gospatric half a leuga half a plough half of land Henry Ilbert de Laci Jane John July June land for geld length and half leuga in length leugæ Margaret Mary nave octagonal Orig parish pasturable Pocklington Pontefract quarenteens in breadth quarenteens in length Recapitulation Revd Richard Robert Robert Malet Roger shillings annual value six bovates six carucates six ploughs soke Thomas Thos three bordars three carucates three ploughs three villanes tower villanes and three Wapentake waste whole manor wife William de Perci William Malet Wood worth forty shillings worth ten shillings worth twenty shillings York دو
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Page 135 - Society ; the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Glasgow in 1806; and in 1808 he was elected a member of the French Institute.
Page 3 - For this the subject should be seated on a low stool or bench, having behind it a graduated rod or tape with its zero level with the seat ; he should sit perfectly erect, with his back well in against the scale. Then proceed as in measuring the height standing. The square should be employed here also if the tape against a wall is used. Length of Cranium. — Measured with callipers from the most prominent part of the projection between the eyebrows (glabella) to the most distant point at the back...
Page 6 - ... the various heights of head, the numbers of the blocks that should be used in each case. The appropriate number for the sitter is noted, and the proper blocks are placed on the chair with the assurance that what was wanted has been correctly done. The distance of the sitter from the camera can be adjusted with much precision by fixing a looking-glass in the wall (say five feet from his chair), so that he can see the reflection of his face in it. The backward or forward position of the sitter...
Page 3 - ... 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series. To make this work complete an index of the transactions from the beginning of archaeological societies down to the year 1890 needs to be published. This Index is already completed in MS. form and it will be printed as soon as arrangements can be made.
Page 15 - As15 sociation that he had found in excavations at Cranborne Chase bodies buried without the head. If we were ignorant of the practices of other races we should be at a loss to account for such interments. As it is, we ask ourselves whether these bodies are those of strangers whose heads have been sent back to their own land, or their own tribe, in order to be united in one general cemetery with their own people; or whether the heads were cut off and preserved by their immediate relatives and brought...
Page 110 - Church-wardens six months after her decease, and the interest arising therefrom to be laid out in Bread and distributed by the Minister and Churchwardens to the most indigent poor belonging to the parish of Pocklington every New Year's Day for ever.
Page 2 - Marshall, Esq., LL.D. (Rouge Croix, College of Arms), the accompanying list of Printed Registers has been prepared from the Calendar privately printed by him in 1891. A revised and augmented edition of this Calendar is in progress, and will contain full references to all known printed Registers, Transcripts, and Collections, whether complete or consisting of extracts. The Committee also issue a list of MS. Transcripts, and propose to prepare and issue further lists from time to time. They therefore...
Page 1 - Transcripts in the British Museum Library. ,, No. 4. — Registers of other Churches in all classes. ,, No. 5. — Parish Registers transcribed in MS. No. 1 —A List of Parish Registers that have been printed as separate works. Extracted by permission...
Page 2 - That some arrangement should be made to supply a scale in all illustrations, since without this many aie practically valueless. Particulars of size can be added in the accompanying description, but it is far better that an actual scale should be given by the inclusion in the picture of a graduated staff or a 3 ft. rod or walking stick, which may generally be unobtrusively introduced. In a series of photographs of Roman masonry now in preparation for the Society of Antiquaries a graduated scale,*...