History, Directory & Gazeteer, of the County of York: With Select Lists of the Merchants & Traders of London, and the Principal Commercial and Manufacturing Towns of England; and a Variety of Other Commercial Information: Also a Copious List of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Yorkshire, Volume 1

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Page 422 - In the year 1201, Eustace, Abbot of Flaye, came over into England, preaching the duty of extending the Sabbath from three o'clock pm on Saturday to sunrising on Monday morning, pleading the authority of an epistle written by Christ himself, and found on the altar of St. Simon at Golgotha. The...
Page 463 - Fell contrasted with the warmth, fertility, and luxuriant foliage of the valley below. 'About half a mile above Bolton the valley closes, and either side of the Wharf is overhung by [deep and] solemn woods, from which huge perpendicular masses of grey rock jut out at intervals.
Page 464 - ... called the Strid, from a feat often exercised by persons of more agility than prudence, who stride from brink to brink, regardless of the destruction which awaits a faltering step. Such...
Page 653 - An Act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts, within the town of Loughborough, and other places therein mentioned, in the counties of Leicester and Nottingham.
Page 411 - While the Yorkists were advancing to the charge, there happened a great fall of snow, which, driving full in the faces of their enemies, blinded them; and this advantage was improved by a stratagem of Lord Falconberg's.
Page 561 - Documents is curious: It happened, says the ancient story, that as the Lady of Sir John Heton, the Baroness of Mirfield, was going to mass before dawn, on...
Page 463 - Linn,' which bear witness to the restless impetuosity of BO many Northern torrents. But, if here Wharf is lost to the eye, it amply repays another sense by its deep and solemn roar, like ' the Voice of the angry Spirit of the Waters,' heard far above and beneath, amidst the silence of the surrounding woods.
Page 403 - ... than the rock on which this edifice is erected. Within, however, all is desolation and ruin. In the second great rounder from the entrance is the muniment room of the Cliffords, in which the treasures and the writings were anciently kept. The apartments, formed about sixty years since, out of the gallery, contain several portraits, in a perishing state, particularly the great historical family picture, painted and inscribed under the direction of the Countess of Pembroke — a head of Sir Ingram...
Page 418 - ... castle. Camden, says that " Tickhill was of such dignity heretofore, that all the manors hereabouts appertaining to it were called the honour of Tickhill." In the civil wars, Immediately preceding the commonwealth in England, this castle was garrisoned by the King's troops, but after the...

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