The Archaeological Journal, Volume 5Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1848 - Archaeology |
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Page 303 - ... currency , was received in one year from the sale of those fruits alone. The vegetables cultivated in this garden were beans, onions, garlic, leeks and some others, which are not specifically named. Hemp was also grown there, and some description of plant which yielded verjuice, possibly sorrel. Cuttings of the vines were sold, from which it may be inferred that the earl's trees were held in some estimation.
Page 170 - ... they are of beliefe (such is their fondnesse) that once in their lives, it is good to give a pair of new shoes to a poor man, for as much as, after this life, they are to pass barefoote through a great launde, full of thornes and furzen, except by the meryte of the almes aforesaid they have redemed the forfeyte...
Page 127 - ... England great men, illustrious barons; and their names, base or obscure on one side of the Channel, were noble and glorious on the other. " Would you know," says an ancient roll in the French language, " what are the names of the great men who crossed the sea with the conqueror, William the Vigorous...
Page 303 - Regie, two of the Martin, five of the Caillou, and three of the Pesse-pucelle : it is stated that these cuttings were for planting. The only flowers named are roses, of which a quantity was sold, producing three shillings and twopence. It appears there was a pond, or vivary, in the garden, as the bailiff expended eight shillings in the purchase of small fish, frogs, and eels, to feed the pikes in it. This account further shews that the garden was enclosed by a paling and fosse; that it was managed...
Page 303 - London, in the 24th year of Edward I. We learn from this curious document that apples, pears, large nuts, and cherries, were produced in sufficient quantities, not only to supply the earl's table, but also to yield a profit by their sale. The comparatively large sum of...
Page 241 - Hibernica: a handbook of Irish antiquities, pagan and Christian; especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish metropolis.
Page 186 - County," bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries of London, and preserved at Somerset House, occurs the object thus described ; — " ' A portion of skin, supposed to be human, according to the tradition that a man, who had stolen the sanctus-bell from the high-altar in Worcester cathedral, had been flayed, and his skin affixed to the north doors, as a punishment for such sacrilege. The doors having been removed, are now to be seen in the crypt of the cathedral, and small fragments of skin may still...
Page 302 - ... Norfolk, by petty serjeanty and the payment of 200 pearmains and 4 hogsheads of cider or wine made of pearmains, into the Exchequer, at the feast of St. Michael yearly'. Cider was largely manufactured during the thirteenth century, even as far north as Yorkshire; thus in 1282 the bailiff of Cowick in that county, stated in his account, that he had made sixty gallons of cider from three quarters and a -half of apples". It has been already remarked that our forefathers considered the apple to be...
Page 290 - These heaps are disposed on a space of one mile — the largest heap at the greatest distance from the town, then the next, and so, gradually, the smaller at the least intervals, till all the wealth is divided on the one mile, so that the least heap shall be nearest the town where the corpse lies. Then all those are to be summoned who have the fleetest horses in the country, within the distance of five or six miles* from these heaps, and they all race toward the prizes; then comes the man that hath...
Page 172 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. Published under the Direction of the Central Committee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages.