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abbey adjoining aldermen annually Antiquities AQUEDUCT Arbeia Borough bridge Brigantes Britons Bryer Caledonians called Camden's Britannia canal capital burgesses caster Caton CHAPEL charity Constantius Chlorus county of Lancaster court Crown Prisoners Cumberland distant Duke Earl elliptic arch erected felons Francis Reynolds freestone Friarage garrison Halton Henry hill History of Manchester horse inhabitants inscription James James Hinde John Dent Kendal king Kirkby Lonsdale Lancashire Lancaster Castle large square tower Leonard-Gate Lonsdale Lune March mayor miles from Lancaster monument neat neighbourhood of Lancaster Northumbria Notitia old Carlisle Overborough persons poor Preston rebels reign religious house Revd Richard river river Lune river Ribble Robert Winder Roman rooms for debtors Saxon Scots seat Severus's wall Sherson shillings side Sir Thomas Lowther Situate Skerton Solway-frith stations stone Street Thomas Postlethwaite Thomas Waller tion Total number town Well-tower West Westmorland William William Butterfield Wyersdale yard
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Page 67 - To see the view in perfection, you must go into a field on the left. Here Ingleborough, behind a variety of lesser mountains, makes the back-ground of the prospect : on each hand of the middle distance, rise two sloping hills ; the left clothed with thick woods, the right with variegated rock and herbage : between them, in the richest of valleys, the Lune serpentizes for many a mile, and comes forth ample and clear, through a wellwooded and richly pastured fore-ground.
Page 87 - From Poulton and Preston with pikes, They with the Stanley stout forth went ; From Pemberton and Pilling Dikes, For battle billmen bold were bent. With fellows fresh and fierce in fight, Which Horton Fields turned out in scores ; With lusty lads, liver and light, From Blackburn and Bolton i
Page 115 - When we arrived at the mouth, and once more hailed all-chearing day-light, I could not but admire the uncouth manner in which nature has thrown together...
Page 114 - I have alfo feen. It is on the Middle of a large Common, and we are led to it by a Brook, near as big as the New River ; which, after turning a CornMill juft at the...
Page 78 - The shape of the second letter in the first word is like that in the inscription on the rock near Brampton in Cumberland, supposed to have been cut in the time of the Emperor Severus, AD 207, and is the fifth L in Horsley's Alphabet. On the brick the letters are square, from which it may be inferred that this wing was long stationed at Lancaster. Through the courtesy of Miss Ffarington, of Worden Hall, I am in possession of a copy of a letter from the Hon. Edward Clifford to Sir William Ffarington...
Page 115 - The sides too are not less remarkable for fine colouring ; the damp, the creeping vegetables, and the seams in the marble and limestone parts of the rock, make as many tints as are seen in the rainbow, and are covered with a perpetual varnish from the just-weeping springs that trickle from the roof.
Page 126 - ... p. 116, quotes a passage from the Lancaster Gazette, dated 7th October, 1809, to the effect that " on carrying a drain through Church " Street, to meet with one from the Castle, the foundation of " a wall composed of large hewn stones, laid in regular " courses, has been brought to light ; also many fragments of " a beautiful red species of pottery with figures embossed in " relief. On one there is Apollo playing on a lyre ; on " another a horse in full speed.
Page 87 - All Lancashire for the most part The lusty Stanley stout did lead; A stock of striplings, strong of heart, Brought up from babes with beef and bread.
Page 61 - ... church. Beyond, over a ridge of gentle heights which bind the west side of the vale, the noble inlet of the sea, that flows upon the Ulverstone and Lancaster sands, is seen at the feet of...
Page 13 - Of all the Anglo-Saxon governments, the kingdom of Northumbria had been always the most perturbed ; usurper murdering usurper, is the pervading incident. A crowd of ghastly monarchs pass swiftly along the page of history, as we gaze, and scarcely has the sword of the assassin been cleansed...