Nottinghamia Vetus Et Nova: Or, An Historical Account of the Ancient and Present State of the Town of Nottingham

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and for, G. Ayscough, & T. Willington, 1751 - 221 pagina's
 

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Pagina 181 - ... in this court facing the middle of the north front, is a wooden door opening into the park...
Pagina 182 - The way into it was by a gate cut out of the rock, and with an oblique entrance for more safety. Without is a pldn with three niches, which I fancy their place of judicature, or the like. Between this and the castle is a hermitage of like workmanship.
Pagina 254 - Lord, after he had staid awhile in the town, having a mind to try the disposition of the populace, on a sudden ordered the trumpets to sound to arms, giving out that the King's Forces were within four miles of Nottingham, whereupon, the whole town was in alarm, multitudes who had horses mounted and accoutred themselves with such arms as they had, whilst others in vast numbers...
Pagina 192 - ... to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the title of Lord Ossulston, Baron of Ossulston.
Pagina 231 - ... of a toad into a cup of wine, and came and drank to the King, which made him pledge him more readily ; the monk died almost immediately, and the King two days after. This monk was a lay brother, a conservus, his name, according to some, was Simon.
Pagina 25 - Submit yourfelves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake ; whether it be to the king, as fupreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him, for the punifhment of evildoers, and for the praife of them that do well. For fo is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to filence the ignorance of foolifh men : as free, and not ufing your liberty for a cloak of malicioufnefs ; but as the fervants of God.
Pagina 117 - ... &c. Which done, they all march in orderly array through the principal parts of the town, and then they are sorted into several companies, and designed to several parts of the town, where they are to keep the watch until the sun dismiss them in the morning. In this business the fashion is for every watchman to wear a garland, made in the fashion of a crown imperial...
Pagina 201 - Answer to Mr. Whiston's Letter to him concerning the Eternity of the Son of God, and of the Holy Ghost.
Pagina 181 - Putsey, who was possessed of a very large jointure, falling deeply in love with him, got him knighted, and married him ; but he living up to the extent of his apron-string estate, and his lady dying before him, Sir William returned to his former occupation, and the public recovered the loss of an eminent artist...
Pagina 76 - I question much whether there has been the like since the plague which visited the town in 1667, and made a cruel desolation in the higher part of Nottingham, for very few died in the lower ; especially in a street called Narrow Marsh, it was observed that the infection had no power, and that during the whole time the plague raged, not one who lived in that street died of it, which induced many of the richer sort of people to crowd thither and hire lodgings at any price ; the preservation of the...

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