A new guide to Lymington, by a resident gentlemanKing, 1841 - 136 pages |
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Abbey acres admired aged ancient Anno attended Baddesley Barbe Bart baths beach Beaulieu beautiful BENEFACTION Blakiston boiling borough bridge Brockenhurst Burley Burrard Castle Malwood chapel chiefly Christchurch church cliffs coast Continuing onward Cottage cross delightful distance Divine service Downton east Elizabeth entrance erected favourite forest formed formerly Foxlease hence Hordle Hurst inhabitants inscribed Isle of Purbeck Isle of Wight James John JOHN NIKE JOHN VASSALL JOSIAS ROGERS Keyhaven land Lane late liquor Lodge Lord Lymington Lyndhurst Malwood mansion ment miles Milford monument nearly Needles neighbour neighbourhood observe pans parish pass Passford Pilley pleasant present proceed Pylewell quay residence river road salt scenery ship Sir George Burrard Sir Harry Sir Harry Burrard SIR MATTHEW BLAKISTON situation South Wall Southampton Southampton river spot stone thence thicket town-hall trees Turning Tyrrell vessels Vicar's Hill village Walhampton walk Warborne wife WILLIAM wood yards
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Page 79 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle...
Page 90 - King William II., surnamed Rufus, on the breast; of which stroke he instantly died, on the 2nd of August, 1100. " King William II., surnamed Rufus, being slain, as before related, was laid in a cart belonging to one Purkess, and drawn from hence to Winchester, and buried in the cathedral church of that city.
Page 52 - ... Lymington published a little book about his town and its surroundings, and the reader can well sympathize with his enthusiasm. After giving high praise to the founding of Gilpin's school, and its endowment, he concluded with the following praise of Gilpin: By this, and other acts worthy of imitation, he was endeared to his neighbours, and to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. And when the names of heroes and of statesmen shall have passed into oblivion, that of GILPIN will be remembered...
Page 27 - AS A TRIBUTE OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION, THIS MONUMENT IS SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN JOSIAS ROGERS, OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP QUEBEC, Who, during the American War, braved every Danger, and suffered all the Severities of Wounds and Imprisonment. In the Campaign of 1794, he commanded the Naval Battalions, at the Reduction of all the, French Islands in the West Indies, where his Services were great to his Country, and honourable to his own Character. In his Exertions to save Grenada, he died of the Yellow...
Page 90 - Here stood the oak on which an arrow, shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag, glanced and struck King William II., named Kufus, in the breast, of which he instantly died, on the 2d of August AD 1100.
Page 54 - In a quiet mansion beneath this Stone secured from the afflictions and still more dangerous enjoyments of life lye the remains of WILLIAM GILPIN sometime vicar of this parish together with the remains of Margaret his Wife after living above fifty years in happy union they hope to be raised in God's...
Page 27 - In his 26th year, JAMES ROGERS, his Brother, and First LIEUTENANT of the same Ship ; whose generous and manly Principles were admired by all who knew him. On the 9th of the same month, at the age of 19, the promise of Virtue andTalents, in JOSIAS ROGERS, his Nephew, and also LIEUTENANT of the QUEBEC, Died at Martinique, by the same Fatality.
Page 51 - This exemplary and ingenious divine was a native of Carlisle; and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his degree of AM in 1748.
Page 79 - ... elms That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond and overthwart the stream That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedgerow beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Page 27 - Reduction of all the French Islands in the West Indies, where his Services were great to his Country, and honourable to his own Character. In his Exertions to save Grenada, he died of the Yellow Fever, on the 24th of April, 1795, aged 40. The Council of Grenada decreed a Monument in Honour of his Public Services: And in Remembrance of his Private Virtues, his Widow soothed Jier Sorrows, by inscribing this Tablet to his Memory.