History of the Ancient Town and Borough of HertfordPrint. & pub. for the author, by St. Austin & Sons, 1830 - 503 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 429 - Hertfordshire, and delivered to him a piece of paper, with four-pence, to cry the words which were written on the paper, a copy of which was as follows : "This is to give notice, that on Monday next, a man and a woman are to be ducked at Tring, in this county, for their wicked crimes.
الصفحة 215 - ... (I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction!) Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
الصفحة 432 - A rope was stretched from the top of the tower of All Saints' church, and brought obliquely to the ground about fourscore yards from the bottom of the tower, where, being drawn over two strong pieces of wood nailed across each other, it was made fast to a stake driven into the earth ; two or three...
الصفحة 459 - ... higher classes of society; and those who offer themselves, and are found deficient, are remanded till another period of admission. 'The lectures of the different Professors in the College are given in a manner to make previous preparation necessary, and to encourage most effectually habits of industry and application. In their substance they embrace the important subjects of classical literature, the Oriental Languages, the Elements of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, the Laws of England,...
الصفحة 433 - ... of the rope, with his head downwards, and adjusted the groove to the rope, his legs being held by a person appointed for that purpose, until such time as he had properly balanced himself. He was then liberated, and descended with incredible swiftness from the top of the tower to the feather-beds, which prevented his reaching the ground.
الصفحة 123 - ATKYNS, his youngest son, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which office he discharged with great honour and integrity ; but retired upon the Revolution from public business to his seat in Norfolk, where he was revered for his piety to God and humanity to men. He employed himself in reconciling differences among his neighbours, in which he obtained so great a character, that few would refuse the most difficult cause to his decision, and the most litigious would not appeal from it.
الصفحة 351 - An Act to redress the misemployment of lands, goods and stocks of money heretofore given to charitable uses.
الصفحة 45 - ... postponed all till some future time. They were long deliberating to what place the Scottish queen should be brought, where she and her cause might be heard. The Tower was rejected. The council then unanimously recommended Hertford castle; which the queen consented to for one whole day; and then changed her mind, saying it was too near London: then...
الصفحة xvi - Triumphant fluttering on the passing winds. In fear, the shepherd on the lonely heath Tended his scanty flock ; the ploughman turn'd, In fear, his hasty furrow: oft the din Of hostile arms alarm'd the ear, and flames Of plunder'd towns thro...
الصفحة 101 - Company, and their successors for the time being, or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor...