A Memoir of Hawarden Parish, Flintshire, Containing Short Introductory Notices of the Princes of North Wales: So Far as to Connect, and Elucidate, Distant and Obscure Events

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J. Fletcher, 1822 - 194 Seiten

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Seite 90 - And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find.
Seite 33 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; This year, a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting through...
Seite 96 - A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Seite 158 - Sheweth, — That your petitioner was at great difficulty and expense, by himself, clerks, and other messengers and agents he employed, in journeys to Liverpool and Shrewsbury, to hire an executioner. The convict being a native of Wales, it was almost impossible to procure any of that country to undertake the execution.
Seite 166 - Jury on oath, who were to inquire what lands any person died seised of, and by what Rents or Services the same were held, and who was the next Heir, and of what age the Heir was, that the King might be informed of his right of Escheat or Wardship: They also...
Seite 5 - Rood, fell down upon her head and killed her ; upon which a great uproar was raised, and it was concluded and resolved upon, to try the said image for the murder of the said Lady Trawst, and a jury was summoned for the purpose, whose names were as follow, viz. — CITY WALLS. Hincot of Hancot, Span of Mancot, Leech and Leach, and Cumberbeach ; Peet and Pate, with Corbin of the Gate, Milling and Hughet, with Gill and Pughet...
Seite 138 - ... him; and prosper the means which shall be made use of for his cure : That being restored to health of body, vigour of mind, and cheerfulness of spirit, he may be able to go to thine house, to offer thee an oblation with great gladness ; and to bless thy holy Name for all thy goodness towards him; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
Seite 16 - ... laboured up the steep ascent with uninterrupted ardour and invincible perseverance ; void of all principle, and destitute of every pious and virtuous feeling, he suffered little restraints in his audacious pursuits from the dictates of religion, or the remonstrances of con^ science.
Seite 26 - ... victory, wherein James IV. King of Scotland, lost his life. As a reward for that service, King Henry, keeping his Whitsuntide at Eltham the next ensuing year, 1514, commanded, that, for those valiant acts against the Scots, where he won the hill, and vanquished all that opposed him, as also for that his ancestors bore the eagle in their crest, he should be proclaimed Lord of Monteagle, which was accordingly then and there done; and he gave to the officers of arms five marks, besides the accustomed...
Seite 6 - Leon, buried it at the place where found, and erected a monument of stone over it, with tbie inscription :— " The Jews .their God did crucify, The Hardeners their's did drown ; , 'Cause with their wants she'd not comply, And lies under this cold stone.

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