A History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey: With a Statistical Survey of the Vicinity to the Distance of Twenty-five Miles, Volume 2Clark and Medd, 1817 - Whitby (England) |
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Page 826 - London, in 1584, in 4to, a treatise on the virtue of nitre, wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same effected; and about the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign first discovered an alum-mine near Gisburgh in Yorkshire, where he had an estate: but, it being adjudged to be a mine-royal, little benefit arose from it to him or his family, till the Parliament of 164O voting it a monopoly, it was restored to the proprietors.
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Page 867 - Isabella, that the captain found it prudent to order his brave fellows into close quarters. While he lay thus sheltered, the enemy twice attempted to board him on the larboard quarter; but by a dexterous turn of the helm he frustrated both attempts, though the Frenchmen kept firing upon him both with guns and small arms. At two...
Page 869 - Ministry; but, his studies being interrupted, he betook himself to teaching; and, about the year 1748, he settled in Whitby as a teacher and landsurveyor. In addition to a thorough knowledge of mathematics, and of the Latin language, he had some acquaintance with the French ; and his school, which, by favour of Mr. Cholmley, he kept in the Toll-booth, or town-house, was for many years the principal school in Whitby, and produced a number of excellent scholars. It was towards the close of his life,...