The history and antiquities of ... Ludlow; with lives of the presidents, and accounts of gentlemen's seats, &c |
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... Henry I. and on being summoned to answer the treasonable charges alledged against him , fled to his castles which he had strongly fortified ; but at last he was under the necessity of implo- ring the royal mercy . The king confiscated ...
... Henry I. and on being summoned to answer the treasonable charges alledged against him , fled to his castles which he had strongly fortified ; but at last he was under the necessity of implo- ring the royal mercy . The king confiscated ...
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... Henry I. by whom it was made a princely resi- dence , greatly augmented in the strength of its works and supplied with a numerous garrison . The frequent skirmishes and battles between the Welsh and their frontier enemies were pro ...
... Henry I. by whom it was made a princely resi- dence , greatly augmented in the strength of its works and supplied with a numerous garrison . The frequent skirmishes and battles between the Welsh and their frontier enemies were pro ...
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... Henry II . fatally experienced when he attempt- ed to march his army over Berwin mountains , nearly the whole being destroyed by cold and famine , ) were therefore induced to grant to cer- tain english gentlemen of enterprising disposi ...
... Henry II . fatally experienced when he attempt- ed to march his army over Berwin mountains , nearly the whole being destroyed by cold and famine , ) were therefore induced to grant to cer- tain english gentlemen of enterprising disposi ...
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... Henry II . made a grant of this noble Castle to Fulke Fitz Warine his favourite , surnamed de Dinan , together with that extensive and fertile vale on the banks of the river Corve , called Corve - Dale . To this Fulke Fitz Warine de ...
... Henry II . made a grant of this noble Castle to Fulke Fitz Warine his favourite , surnamed de Dinan , together with that extensive and fertile vale on the banks of the river Corve , called Corve - Dale . To this Fulke Fitz Warine de ...
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... Henry by Glocestre , of whom he was well interteynid as his kinnesman , and there he had his wounde that Arnold's brother gave him yn the waste welle helid . King Henry made Fulke a knight , and steward of his house , and lorde and ...
... Henry by Glocestre , of whom he was well interteynid as his kinnesman , and there he had his wounde that Arnold's brother gave him yn the waste welle helid . King Henry made Fulke a knight , and steward of his house , and lorde and ...
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Page 99 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 118 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 111 - Let your first action be the lifting up of your mind to Almighty God, by hearty prayer ; and feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer, with continual meditation and thinking of Him to whom you pray, and of the matter for which you pray.
Page 112 - Apply your study to such hours as your discreet master doth assign you, earnestly; and the time, I know, he will so limit as shall be both sufficient for your learning and safe for your health. And mark the sense and the matter of that you read as...
Page 112 - Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.
Page 85 - ... nation should have a right to English liberties and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties — the grant of their own property — seemed a thing so incongruous that, eight years after, that is, in the thirty-fifth...
Page 112 - It will increase your force, and enlarge your breath. Delight to be cleanly as well in all parts of your body as in your garments. It shall make you grateful in each company ; and, otherwise, loathsome.
Page 143 - O'er Teme's luxuriant vale, Thy moss-grown halls, thy precincts drear, To musing Fancy's pensive ear, Unfold a varied tale. When terror stalk'd the prostrate land With savage Cambria's ruthless band, Beneath thy frowning shade.
Page 84 - The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence, and poverty to rapine.
Page 30 - The too late re..! pentance pentance of this abandoned woman drove her to the madness of desperation, and in her frenzy she destroyed herself. The following curious account in Leland's Collectanea ; Tom. 1. p. 231, refers to this period. Thinges excerptid oute of an old Englisch boke yn ryme of the Gestes of Guarine and his sunnes.