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 50
... pounds . The whole quantity of land in cultivation , was thirty plough lands , in the hand of the burgesses and the servile , which at sixty acres , will make one thousand eight hundred acres . No waste lands were included in this ...
... pounds . The whole quantity of land in cultivation , was thirty plough lands , in the hand of the burgesses and the servile , which at sixty acres , will make one thousand eight hundred acres . No waste lands were included in this ...
Pàgina 71
... pounds . When the compa- rative value of money is considered , this sum then , would be equal to thirty thousand pounds now . In the reign of William the Con- queror , and down to Richard I. commodities were on an average ten times ...
... pounds . When the compa- rative value of money is considered , this sum then , would be equal to thirty thousand pounds now . In the reign of William the Con- queror , and down to Richard I. commodities were on an average ten times ...
Pàgina 76
... pounds per Annum , for the custody of them . Under the influence , and by the direction of Archbishop Langton , a number of barons associated for the purpose of obtaining a redress of grievances . The archbishop had found a copy of the ...
... pounds per Annum , for the custody of them . Under the influence , and by the direction of Archbishop Langton , a number of barons associated for the purpose of obtaining a redress of grievances . The archbishop had found a copy of the ...
Pàgina 99
... pounds per annum , to be paid by the sheriff of Cumberland for the time being ; and also lands and rents in Cumberland and Westmoreland of the value of one thousand marks per annum , and five hundred marks per annum , out of the marches ...
... pounds per annum , to be paid by the sheriff of Cumberland for the time being ; and also lands and rents in Cumberland and Westmoreland of the value of one thousand marks per annum , and five hundred marks per annum , out of the marches ...
Pàgina 149
... hundred , others two hundred pounds , and up to ten thousand . They inlisted men and supported them at their own expence . They seized the castles within this county , and supplied them with pro- visions HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT . 149.
... hundred , others two hundred pounds , and up to ten thousand . They inlisted men and supported them at their own expence . They seized the castles within this county , and supplied them with pro- visions HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT . 149.
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The History of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract: Containing an Interesting ... Benjamin Boothroyd Visualització completa - 1807 |
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acres Alderman appointed army Austwick Baghill barons belonging besieged body borough aforesaid boys burgage called Capt castle of Pontefract Castleford cattle charter church of All-Saints comburgesses command Darrington daughter ditto Duke dutchy Earl of Lancaster Edward election enemy enjoyed erected estates Ferrybridge fire Gallway garrison gave gentlemen giving his soul governor granted guard Henry de Lacy Henry VIII honour of Pontefract horse hospital hundred Iidem inhabitants John Bland king king's Knottingley land Langdale Leeds Lieut Lord low church Lowther Marmaduke Langdale married mayor and burgesses Monkhill monks Morrice night oxgangs paid park parliament party Paulden persons Pontefract castle possession pounds priory prisoners received reign rents Richard Robert de Lacy sally Sandal Castle Saxon sent shillings siege Sir John Swillington Tanshelf thereof Thomas tithes tower town of Pontefract troops trustees vicar village or borough Wakefield William York
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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 :