Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the History and Antiquities of Gloucestershire, Volumes 8-10

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William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Company, Limited, 1901 - Gloucestershire (England)
 

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Page 103 - Here's to our horse, and to his right ear, God send our maister a happy New Year; A happy New Year as e'er he did see— With my wassailing bowl I drink to thee.
Page 105 - Parish wherein the said book shall be laid up, which book ye shall every Sunday take forth, and in the presence of the said Wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddings, christenings, and burials made the whole week afore...
Page 34 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 103 - Wassail ! Wassail ! all over the town, Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown : Our bowl it is made of a maplin tree, We be good fellows all ; I drink to thee.
Page 103 - О maids, come trole back the pin, And the fairest maid in the house, let us all in. Come, butler, come bring us a bowl of the best : I hope your soul in Heaven may rest : But if you do bring us a bowl of the small, Then down fall butler, bowl, and all.
Page 20 - ... extremum, which was a mediaeval synonym for obiit, was issued out of the Court of Chancery ; this was directed usually to the escheator or feodary of the county in which the deceased was presumed to have possessed lands. It commanded him to hold an inquest and to summon a jury for the purpose of an inquiry which was directed to the following points : — 1.
Page 109 - Gloucester, 15th January, 1752. SIR, AT the request of Mr. Mayor, whose extraordinary hurry of business will not afford him leisure to write himself, I am desired to acquaint you, that by the Gloucester waggon, this week, is sent the usual present of a lamprey-pie from this Corporation to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. It is directed to you, and I am further to request "the favour of you to have the same presented, with the compliments of this body, as your late worthy father used to do.
Page 19 - Escheats," since that name has been reserved for the Escheator's accounts of lands and property escheated to the Crown, with the profits and value of the same at different periods. Inquisitiones post mortem were not concerned with property held otherwise than " in chief " by tenants fn capite, whose death necessitated such inquiry in order to ascertain the feudal rights which accrued to the Crown — a practice which continued until the abolition of the service of knight serjeantry in 1645, although...
Page 62 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Page 103 - Here's to our cow, and to her long tail, God send our measter us never may fail Of a cup of good beer : I pray you draw near, And our jolly wassail it's then you shall hear. Be here any maids? I suppose there, be some; Sure they will not let young men stand on the cold stone! Sing hey O, maids!

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