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... living is a rectory , exempt from the archdeacon's jurisdiction , of the yearly value of 3007. , with a glebe - house . There is a yearly fair in the island . Beds of oyster and cockle - shells have been found beneath the surface of ...
... living is a rectory , exempt from the archdeacon's jurisdiction , of the yearly value of 3007. , with a glebe - house . There is a yearly fair in the island . Beds of oyster and cockle - shells have been found beneath the surface of ...
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... living is a vicarage , with the chapel of Billericay annexed . By the Education Returns of 1833 , there were in the parish twelve day and five boarding - schools with 260 children , and two Sunday- schools with 171 children . One of the ...
... living is a vicarage , with the chapel of Billericay annexed . By the Education Returns of 1833 , there were in the parish twelve day and five boarding - schools with 260 children , and two Sunday- schools with 171 children . One of the ...
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... living is a vicarage , of the yearly value of 2157. with a glebe house , in the archdeaconry of Colchester . There are three unendowed almshouses near the church , and there is an endowed school . The parliamentary returns for 1833 ...
... living is a vicarage , of the yearly value of 2157. with a glebe house , in the archdeaconry of Colchester . There are three unendowed almshouses near the church , and there is an endowed school . The parliamentary returns for 1833 ...
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... living is a vicarage of the yearly value of 160 % . , with a glebe - house : it is in the archdeaconry of Essex . There were in 1833 eight day - schools , with 138 scholars , 20 of whom ( boys ) were educated from the proceeds of an ...
... living is a vicarage of the yearly value of 160 % . , with a glebe - house : it is in the archdeaconry of Essex . There were in 1833 eight day - schools , with 138 scholars , 20 of whom ( boys ) were educated from the proceeds of an ...
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... living is a chapelry originally included in the parish of Hornchurch , the limits of which were once coextensive with those of Havering liberty , but separated from it by act of parliament , A.D. 1658. The living is of the annual value ...
... living is a chapelry originally included in the parish of Hornchurch , the limits of which were once coextensive with those of Havering liberty , but separated from it by act of parliament , A.D. 1658. The living is of the annual value ...
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Page 153 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 267 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 267 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 218 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.
Page 177 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 101 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 259 - ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...
Page 267 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 213 - If a ferry is erected on a river, so near another ancient ferry as to draw away its custom, it is a nuisance to the owner of the old one. For where there is a ferry by prescription, the owner is bound to keep it always in repair and readiness, for the ease of all the king's subjects; otherwise he may be...
Page 230 - ... of the court, the plaintiff is at liberty to proceed against him for any other personal injury; which surmise, of being in the marshal's custody, the defendant is not at liberty to dispute.