The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volumen 22Verner & Hood, 1814 |
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... church at Dorchester , in Oxfordshire , and Birinus was installed bishop , with spiritual jurisdiction over the whole of Wessex ; also of some districts within the bounda ries of Mercia t . Notwithstanding these exertions , however ...
... church at Dorchester , in Oxfordshire , and Birinus was installed bishop , with spiritual jurisdiction over the whole of Wessex ; also of some districts within the bounda ries of Mercia t . Notwithstanding these exertions , however ...
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... church 4 Salisbury , and constituted canons therein , and have canonically granted for ever , freely as I re- ceived , the goods of the church to them so living canonically . To wit , these towns , besides Knight's fees : Gleminster ...
... church 4 Salisbury , and constituted canons therein , and have canonically granted for ever , freely as I re- ceived , the goods of the church to them so living canonically . To wit , these towns , besides Knight's fees : Gleminster ...
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... church of Willis- ford , Pottern , and Lavington , Ramsbury and Bedwin , and one mill in the said town . The church of Wanborough , with a hide and a half of land , and the land of one borderer in the same town , and one garden ...
... church of Willis- ford , Pottern , and Lavington , Ramsbury and Bedwin , and one mill in the said town . The church of Wanborough , with a hide and a half of land , and the land of one borderer in the same town , and one garden ...
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... church in the valley at some distance from the castle . The monarch readily assented , and the ground is said to have been actually fixed on , for the purpose , when the design was laid aside by the bishop , under the idea that the ...
... church in the valley at some distance from the castle . The monarch readily assented , and the ground is said to have been actually fixed on , for the purpose , when the design was laid aside by the bishop , under the idea that the ...
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... church ; which is constantly torn by tempestuous winds : they are also forced to buy water at a great price ; nor is there any access to the same without a licence of the Castellan . So that it happens that on Ash Wednesday when the ...
... church ; which is constantly torn by tempestuous winds : they are also forced to buy water at a great price ; nor is there any access to the same without a licence of the Castellan . So that it happens that on Ash Wednesday when the ...
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Página 339 - Supper, according to the rites of the Church of England...
Página 290 - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders. To him we owe the origin of juries, the establishment of a militia, the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher and a Christian, the father of his people, the founder of the English monarchy and liberty.
Página 94 - ... able to keep in repair the roof of the church, which is constantly torn by tempestuous winds : they are also forced to buy water at as great a price as would be sufficient to purchase the common drink of the country; nor is there any access open to the same without the license of the castellan.
Página 350 - It does not appear, from the strictest search,* that a stone, or inscription of any kind, marked the place where his dust was deposited : even the memorial of his mortality is given with a pathetic brevity, which accords but too well with the obscure and humble passages of his life : " March 20, 1639-40, buried Philip Massinger, A STRANGER...
Página 158 - ... piety and devotion; a most eloquent and powerful preacher; and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent and so very facetious, that no man's company was more desired, and more loved. No man was more negligent in his dress and habit and mien; no man more wary and cultivated in his behaviour and discourse; insomuch as he had the greater advantage when he was known by promising so little before he was known.
Página 13 - That sort of slate, other circumstances being the same, is esteemed the best which imbibes the least water ; for the imbibed water not only increases the weight of the covering, but in frosty weather, being converted into ice, it swells and shivers the slate. This effect of frost is very sensible in tiled houses, but...
Página 577 - Miscellanies on the following subjects : 1. Day-fatality. 2. Local fatality. 3. Ostenta. 4. Omens. 5. Dreams. 6. Apparitions. 7. Voices. 8. Impulses. 9. Knockings. 10. Blows invisible. 11. Prophecies. 12. Marvels. 13. Magic. 14. Transportation in the air. 15. Visions in a beril or speculum. 16. Converse with angels and spirits. 17. Corpse candles in Wales. 18. Oracles. 19. Extasies. 20. Glances of love and envy. 21. Second-sighted persons. 22. The discovery of two murders by apparitions,
Página 56 - The colour of mine eyes was black like my father's, and the form and aspect of them was quick and lively, like my mother's ; the hair of my head was brown and very thick, and so long, that it reached to the calf of my legs when I stood upright, with a peak of hair on my forehead, and a dimple in my chin, like my father ; full cheeks and round face, like my mother, and an exquisite shape of body, resembling my father...
Página 480 - A short Account of the Ancient History, Present Government, and Laws of the Republic of Geneva.
Página 465 - November 1789, on the subject of Mr. Wilberforce's propositions in the house of commons, concerning the Slave Trade." But his most distinguished performance is his " History, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies,