Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and It's Neighbourhood: From the Earliest Period Down to the Present Time, Band 1

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author, 1821 - 601 Seiten

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Seite 70 - Dr Percy, in his Notes to the Northumberland Household Book, tells us : " The anniversary of St Blasius is the 3d of February, when it is still the custom in many parts of England to light up fires on the hills on St Blayse night : a custom anciently taken up, perhaps for no better reason than the jingling resemblance of his name to the word Blaze.
Seite x - ... hands, having generally a great similarity, but many particular differences. The originals of them were probably the Registers, kept by the Religious in their Convents, particularly that kept By the Kalendaries of Christ Church ; and they have been enlarged, contracted, and altered according to the fancy of each Copyist.
Seite 207 - Llediaith, who first brought the Christian faith to the nation of the Cymry, from Rome, where he had been for seven years as an hostage for his son Caradog, whom the Romans had imprisoned, after that he was betrayed by treachery, and an ambush laid for him, by Aregwedd Foeddawg.
Seite 79 - ... churches from its elevated summit. The western end projects into the Bristol channel, above the town of Weston, and is formed into one of the most remarkable fortifications in England.
Seite 80 - Banwell along the top of the ridge, about a quarter of a mile distant from the preceding fortress, is a remnant of antiquity, not easily to be classed. It is a small plot of ground nearly square, surrounded with a rampart of earth only three feet high and a slight ditch ; it is about 55 yards long from west to east, and 45 yards broad from north to south : the entrance is on the east. In the area is a raised ridge about two feet high and four or five feet wide, formed in shape of a cross; edged on...
Seite 356 - Gloucester, this work humbly sues for the favour of being so corrected by your advice, that it may not be thought to be the poor offspring of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but when polished'- by your refined wit and judgment, the production of him who had Henry the glorious king of England for his father...
Seite 482 - Poitiers had shut their gates, and would suffer none to enter : npon which account, there was great butchery on the causeway, before the gate, where such numbers were killed or wounded, that several surrendered themselves the moment they spied an Englishman : and there were many English archers who had four, five, or six prisoners.
Seite 144 - ... the neighbourhood of Newmarket, and in so doing several times crossed and recrossed the road leading to that village. It seemed to me that there had once been a wide trackway along the course of the dyke, and that, as land became valuable, and the road was narrowed, the proprietors inclosed the dyke sometimes on one side of the road, and sometimes on the other. The earthwork was much degraded, and indeed levelled, for considerable distances ; but all the peasantry we met with knew its course,...
Seite 58 - Thus was founded a British town on Clifton-hill, the original settlements from which Bristol was derived ; and when this latter town began to flourish, and the old hill-fortress to be neglected, it was easy and natural to call the new town, adjoining, by the old name, as happened at Salisbury, Winchester, Colchester, and other places. — It is curious to observe how Clifton, after having transferred its inhabitants to Bristol and continued an unfrequented village for more than 1000 years, is now...
Seite 102 - It appears that an avenue or passage goes through the middle, four feet high, constructed of large rock fragments, and consisting of triplets of stones, two perpendicular and one horizontal. On each side of this avenue are cells, four feet high, two feet three inches broad and nine feet long, where the bodies were deposited north and south ; and there being many skulls in each cell, they were perhaps family repositories. The stones of which the cells are composed, are many of them, two or three tons...

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