The History of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract: Containing an Interesting Account of Its Castle, and the Three Different Sieges it Sustained, During the Civil War, with Notes and Pedigrees, of Some of the Most Distinguished Royalists and Parliamentarians, Chiefly Drawn from Manuscripts Never Before Publishedauthor, 1807 - 496 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... · 443 · ib . Ancient Cave , Corporation , Parliamentary History , Religious Sects , and modern State of the Town , Appendix -- Addenda . 445 · 458 484 PREFACE . AGREEMENT in language , community of pri- viliges xii CONTENTS .
... · 443 · ib . Ancient Cave , Corporation , Parliamentary History , Religious Sects , and modern State of the Town , Appendix -- Addenda . 445 · 458 484 PREFACE . AGREEMENT in language , community of pri- viliges xii CONTENTS .
Pàgina xiv
... Parliament , have been derived from Wilson's MS . Pedigrees , in the Leeds library , compared with another valuable copy in the possession of the Rt . Hon . J. Smyth , Heath , near Wakefield . Both these MS . are copies from one in the ...
... Parliament , have been derived from Wilson's MS . Pedigrees , in the Leeds library , compared with another valuable copy in the possession of the Rt . Hon . J. Smyth , Heath , near Wakefield . Both these MS . are copies from one in the ...
Pàgina 43
... be chosen from the shire - gemote , for the purpose of investigating the evi- dence of the fact , and whose verdict , like that of a modern jury was to be decisive . in the Saxon witena - gemote , or parliament , HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT . 43.
... be chosen from the shire - gemote , for the purpose of investigating the evi- dence of the fact , and whose verdict , like that of a modern jury was to be decisive . in the Saxon witena - gemote , or parliament , HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT . 43.
Pàgina 44
... parliament , it is not possible now decisively to ascertain . What were the qualifications of such as attended this assembly ; whether they attended in virtue of their own right , or whether as the representatives of other land ...
... parliament , it is not possible now decisively to ascertain . What were the qualifications of such as attended this assembly ; whether they attended in virtue of their own right , or whether as the representatives of other land ...
Pàgina 82
... parliament on him , and his heirs male lawfully begotten , which his descendent , the present Duke of Norfolk enjoys . Not far from the church at Brotherton , was a piece of ground of about twenty acres , surrounded with a trench and a ...
... parliament on him , and his heirs male lawfully begotten , which his descendent , the present Duke of Norfolk enjoys . Not far from the church at Brotherton , was a piece of ground of about twenty acres , surrounded with a trench and a ...
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Pàgina 96 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Pàgina 112 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; My soul the father: and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts...
Pàgina 81 - Kirkby, and the heirs of his body ; and for want of such issue...
Pàgina 406 - ... the year, that is to say at the feast of St. Michael the archangell, the birth of our Lord God, the annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary, and nativity of St.
Pàgina 497 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.
Pàgina 83 - We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works Die too : the deep foundations that we lay, Time plows them up, and not a trace remains.
Pàgina 79 - ... of free warren was invented to protect them, by giving the grantee a sole and exclusive power of killing such game so far as his warren extended, on condition of his preventing other persons.
Pàgina 256 - In a word, I believe him still that grand apostate to the commonwealth, who must not expect to be pardoned in this world, till he be dispatched to the other.
Pàgina 322 - The habit of these monks was a black loose coat, or gown of stuff, reaching down to their heels, with a cowl or hood of the same, and a scapulary ; and under that a white habit, nearly as large as the former, made of flannel; these, with a pair of boots, completed their costume.
Pàgina 145 - ... strength, should further attacks be made upon his throne. Early in December, 1484, the king was aware of the continuance of Richmond's intention to contest with him for the crown, from the evidence of the following mandate sent to the Mayor of Windsor by Richard, towards the close of that year :