A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire: Containing the Names of All the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Gentlemen's Seats, &c. in the County of York. A Brief History of Places Most Remarkable for Antiquities; Biographical Notices of Eminent Persons, &c

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J. Langdale, 1822 - 472 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 60 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung,, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how chang'd from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim...
الصفحة 304 - Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.
الصفحة 43 - They thought it should have canopied their bones Till doomsday ; but all things have their end : Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
الصفحة 82 - Bodleian library, are lasting memorials what this county owes to him, as the two volumes of the Monasticon (which, though published under his and Dugdale's names conjointly, were both collected and written totally by him) will immortalize that extensive industry which has laid the whole kingdom under obligation.
الصفحة 412 - And, for a night and for a day, His horse shall have both corn and hay, And no man shall ask him when he goeth away.
الصفحة 274 - This grant, contained in letters patent dated January llth, 1691, determined "That Sir John Tempest, Bart., and other persons therein named, should be a body corporate, by the name of ' The Governors of the Free School of James Margcrison, late Lord Archbishop of Armagh...
الصفحة 453 - Tin's place, like many others, very probably took its name from its abounding with wolves, which were once so numerous in this part of the kingdom, that they attacked and destroyed great numbers of the tame beasts of the villages. The inhabitants, finding all their efforts to destroy them in vain, petitioned king Athelstan, beseeching him to grant them relief, by taking some effectual method to destroy those ferocious animals ; for which service, they bound themselves, and their successors for ever,...
الصفحة 279 - FERRAR (ROBERT), the martyred bishop of St. David's in the sixteenth century, was an ancestor of the preceding, and born in Halifax parish, Yorkshire, probably at Ewood. He became, when a young man, a canon regular of the order of St. Austin, but in what priory or abbey is uncertain. Having partly received his academical education in Cambridge, he retired to a nursery for the canons of St. Austin, at Oxford, called St. Mary's-college (where Erasmus had before studied), and here we find him in 1525,...
الصفحة 82 - One cannot approach the borders of this county, without paying respect to the memory of the indefatigable collector of its antiquities, Roger Dodsworth, who undertook and executed a work which, to the antiquaries of the present day, would have been the stone of Tydides.
الصفحة 248 - One of the most valuable relics is the original seal of the Commonwealth for the approbation of ministers, it is of very massy silver, and is inscribed the " Seal of Approbation of Ministers." In the centre are two branches of palm, and within them an open book with these words,

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