The Traveller's Guide, Or, English Itinerary: Containing Accurate and Original Descriptions of All the Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets, &c. and Their Exact Distance from London ... : the Whole Comprising a Complete Topography of England and Wales : to which are Prefixed, General Observations on Great-Britain ...J. Cundee, 1805 - Great Britain |
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Page 467 - ... and in so much that they are not well contented therewith. But if it please our Lord, I will help you to govern them better than they have been governed in time past.' King Richard then answered him, ' Fair cousin, since it pleaseth you, it pleaseth us well...
Page 323 - THE TRINITY HOUSE' shall mean the master wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond in the county of Kent...
Page 701 - This day was more observed by people going a maying than for divers years past, and indeed much sin committed by wicked meetings with fiddlers, drunkenness, ribaldry, and the like ; great resort came to Hyde Park, many hundreds of coaches and gallants in attire, but most shameful powdered hair men, and painted and spotted women.
Page 561 - It afterwards became the property of Prince Rupert, who gave it to his beautiful mistress, Margaret Hughes, a much admired actress in the reign of Charles II. From her it passed through several hands, till the year 1748, when it was purchased by George Bubb Dod'ington...
Page 28 - Leolin, that he leaped into the water, and embraced the boat King Edward was in, saying, " Most wise king, your humility has conquered my pride, and your wisdom triumphed over my folly ; mount on my neck, which I have exalted against you, and enter into that country which your goodness this day has made your own.
Page 598 - Normans now prepared themselves for this important decision ; but the aspect of things, on the night before the battle, was very different in the two camps. The English spent the time in riot, and jollity, and disorder ; the Normans, in silence, and in prayer, and in the other functions of their religion.
Page 189 - The steeple is most singular; the tower being a square within a square, the upper-part set diagonally within the lower. The inside of the church is handsome and spacious; the centre supported by four large and fine clustered pillars, the west part more modern than the rest, and the pillars octagonal. The choir is beautiful, surrounded with stalls, whose tops and pillars are finely carved with foliage. Under a small arch, on the north side of the altar, lies a...
Page 505 - ... queen Anne, king James, and many of the nobility of the realm, even when the times of monkish superstition had ceased, gave large sums of money for small cuttings from the original...
Page lx - This claimant heing able to obtain nothing from John Baliol, applied herself to King Edward, as the superior lord. He, upon this application, by his writ, which is yet extant, commanded both parties, in order...
Page 40 - The red hall entrance is small, but elegant: it contains two landscapes and a few other pictures. The drawing room, on the first floor, is an octagon, ornamented with a variety of small pictures. It commands a prospect of Norwood, Shooter's Hill, many churches in London and its environs, Ilampstead, Highgate, &c.