A History of Hurstperpoint [sic] ...

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Phillips, 1837 - 74 pagina's

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Pagina 72 - Meantime you gain the height, from whose fair brow The bursting prospect spreads immense around : And snatch'd o'er hill and dale, and wood and lawn And verd-ant field, and darkening heath between And villages embosom'd soft in trees, And spiry towns by surging columns mark'd Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams...
Pagina 4 - The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.
Pagina 67 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the swain...
Pagina 61 - You silent steal; or sit beneath the shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts Thrown graceful round by Nature's careless hand, And pensive listen to the various voice Of rural peace: the herds, the flocks, the birds, The hollow-whispering breeze, the plaint of rills, That, purling down amid the twisted roots Which creep around, their dewy murmurs shake On the sooth'd ear.
Pagina 31 - Goring is gone to travel, having run himself out 8ooo/., which he purposeth to redeem by his frugality abroad, unless my lord of Cork can be induced to put to his helping hand, which I have undertaken to solicit for him the best I can, and shall do it with all the power and care my credit and wit shall anywise suggest unto me. In the...
Pagina 31 - ... was advanced to the title of earl of Norwich, which had then become extinct by the death of his maternal uncle, Edward Denny. Sir George married when very young, and appears to have been of extremely imprudent habits, if not of dissolute morals also. Wentworth, in a letter dated 20th of May, 1633, says, " Young Mr Goring is gone to travel, having run himself out of £8,000, which he purposes to redeem by his frugality abroad...
Pagina 19 - Hereford as holding lands or rents to the amount of 20/. yearly value and upwards, either in Capite or otherwise, and as such summoned under the general writ to perform Military Service in person with horses and arms, &c.
Pagina 4 - Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. -The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital with granite.
Pagina 10 - William leisure to begin and finish an undertaking, which proves his extensive genius, and does honor to his memory ; it was a general survey of all the lands in the kingdom, their extent in each district, their proprietors, tenures, value ; the quantity of meadow, pasture, wood, and arable land, which they contained; and in some counties, the number of tenants, cottagers, and slaves of all denominations, who lived upon them.
Pagina 32 - Hurstperpoint, and 6 messuages, 200 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 200 acres of heath, and more in Hurstperpoint, Boluey, Cuckfield, Clayton, Pyecomhe, and the Advowson of Hurstperpoint.—Burr.MSS.

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