A history of Shrewsbury [by H. Owen and J.B. Blakeway].Harding, Lepard and Company, 1825 |
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Pagina 413 - Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. A few words must be said of the earl's posterity. His only son, deprived of the great estates of his father, ultimately succeeded to those of his mother: and from him descended the counts of Ponthieu and
Pagina 511 - night. The strain and labour of six good horses, sometimes eight, drew us through the sloughs of Mireden, and many other places. We were constantly out two hours before day, and as late at night: and in the depth of winter proportionably later
Pagina 511 - rode sideways, as in a modern car. See the out of the road at the first step, and made us go to cuts in La Serre's account of the entry of Mary of Pilton." Letter xxxv. in Malone's edit, of DryMedicis into London, 1639; reprint of 1775. den's prose works. This journey (seventy-eight
Pagina 413 - LUPUS! mechanic :—these were the favourable points of his character. On the other hand, he was deceitful and subtle, cruel, covetous, and lustful, an inexorable and bloody executioner in the infliction of tortures ; lastly, he was a contemner and oppressor of our holy mother the Church 1 ." Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep.
Pagina 535 - He shall be, and is wont to be, one of the most skilful and virtuous apprentices of the law, of the whole kingdom : whose office is always to sit on the right hand of the mayor in recording pleas, and passing
Pagina 472 - and all was altered. And as ministers of the old way were lower, and sectaries much higher in his esteem than formerly, so he was much higher in his own esteem when he thought he had attained much higher, than he was before, when he
Pagina 511 - to the Welsh Harp: the third, to Coventry: the fourth, to Northampton : the fifth, to Dunstable: and, as a wondrous effort, on the last to London, before the commencement of night. The strain and labour of six good horses, sometimes eight, drew us through the sloughs of Mireden, and many other places. We were constantly out two hours before day, and as late at night:
Pagina 444 - successor of sir Francis Ottley in the government of Shrewsbury was sir Michael Ernley, a knight of an ancient Wiltshire family 1 ; a " gallant gentleman who understood the office and duty of a soldier by long experience and diligent observation," and is enumerated among the colonels taken prisoner by sir Thomas Fairfax at Acton Church near Namptwych, Jan. 25, 1643
Pagina 364 - no doubt that the cession of Shropshire was obtained from the British prince only by the military preponderance of the Saxon, yet it seems equally certain that it must have been finally the subject of a pacific negociation. A work of so much labour as OfFa's dyke, evidently designed, according to his practice in other places
Pagina 513 - to lay aside somewhat of their pristine horrors. In April 1753, " the Birmingham and Shrewsbury Long Coach, with six able horses, in four days," started from " the Old Red Lion" here, to the Bell in Holborn ; fare
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| Titel | A history of Shrewsbury [by H. Owen and J.B. Blakeway]. Volumes 1-2 van A history of Shrewsbury [by H. Owen and J.B. Blakeway], John Brickdale Blakeway Online access with subscription: JISC Historical Texts |
| Auteur | Hugh Owen |
| Uitgever | Harding, Lepard and Company, 1825 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 1 mei 2007 |
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