The History of the County of Gloucester: Compressed, and Brought Down to the Year 1803 ...author, 1803 |
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... parish about eight miles in circumference , contain- ing 1100 acres , and distant 14 miles N. w . from Glou- cester ... parish . The soil is also favourable to the production of many fruits , and particularly the Old- bury and other ...
... parish about eight miles in circumference , contain- ing 1100 acres , and distant 14 miles N. w . from Glou- cester ... parish . The soil is also favourable to the production of many fruits , and particularly the Old- bury and other ...
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... parish . The family mansion now called Bromsberrow - place , was built on the site of Hooke - house by Robert Dobyns Yate , Esq . and finished in its present elegant style by the late Robert Gorges Dobyns Yate , Esq . GROVE - HOUSE and ...
... parish . The family mansion now called Bromsberrow - place , was built on the site of Hooke - house by Robert Dobyns Yate , Esq . and finished in its present elegant style by the late Robert Gorges Dobyns Yate , Esq . GROVE - HOUSE and ...
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... parish ' . The name is derived by Atkyns from the Saxon Dim , dark , and Ac , oak , as giving the character of the place in ancient days , when it was covered , in a great measure , with trees of that kind . This parish is intersected ...
... parish ' . The name is derived by Atkyns from the Saxon Dim , dark , and Ac , oak , as giving the character of the place in ancient days , when it was covered , in a great measure , with trees of that kind . This parish is intersected ...
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... parish which lies on the banks of the Leden . Great Netherton , with other estates to a considerable amount , belong to John Thackwell , Esq . Rowshill , Wincross , and other estates , are the property of the Rev. Reginald Wynniatt ...
... parish which lies on the banks of the Leden . Great Netherton , with other estates to a considerable amount , belong to John Thackwell , Esq . Rowshill , Wincross , and other estates , are the property of the Rev. Reginald Wynniatt ...
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... parish . The manerial house is large , and appears from the date and armorial bearings carved in some of the apartments , to have been built in 1610 , by Henry Finch , Esq . The sharp pediments and bay windows mark the style of that age ...
... parish . The manerial house is large , and appears from the date and armorial bearings carved in some of the apartments , to have been built in 1610 , by Henry Finch , Esq . The sharp pediments and bay windows mark the style of that age ...
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A. M. is incumbent abbot acres advowson afterwards Alveston anciently annexed arable Atkyns Bart benefice Bishop Bristol built called caruc castle cester chancel chapel church considerable estate consists containing Court Cromhall crown daugh daughter deanery death dedicated to St descended died dissolution Domesday Duke Dursley Earl Edward eldest Elizabeth estate belongs Forest deanery freeholders voted Gent Glou hamlet Hawkesbury deanery heir heiress held Henry Hereford hill Houses inhabited hundred impropriation James King King's books discharged land Lanthony last century late lease lessee Lord Berkeley manerial manor manor and estates marriage married Mary Minsterworth Mitcheldean nave Newent P. N. tax parish passed pasture patronage Population possession present proprietor priory Pucklechurch purchase rectory reign of Hen residence Richard Robert Robert Fitzharding Saxon scite Severn Sir John Sodbury soil sold stone succeeded Thomas Thornbury tillage tythes vested vicarage village west end wood Worcester
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Seite 386 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my...
Seite 386 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ; and so on.' After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : ' This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs ; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O eagle...
Seite 386 - Pennant tells us, that on the first of May, in the Highlands of Scotland, the Herdsmen of every Village hold their Beltein, a rural Sacrifice: They cut a square Trench in the Ground, leaving the Turf in the Middle; on that they make a Fire of Wood, on which they dress a large Caudle of Eggs, Butter, Oat-meal and Milk, and bring besides the Ingredients of the Caudle, Plenty of Beer and Whiskey ; for each of the Company must contribute something.
Seite 386 - ... on which they dress a large caudle of eggs, butter, oatmeal and milk; and bring, besides the ingredients of the caudle, plenty of beer and whisky; for each of the company must contribute something. The rites begin...
Seite 42 - On the eve of Twelfth-day all the servants of every farmer assemble together in one of the fields that has been sown with wheat. At the end of twelve...
Seite 387 - This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O eagle !' When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle; and after the feast is finished, what is left is hid by two persons deputed for that purpose; but on the next Sunday they re-assemble, and finish the reliques of the first entertainment.
Seite 43 - ... soaked in cider, which they claim as a reward for their past labours in sowing the grain. This seems to resemble a custom of the ancient Danes who, in their addresses to their rural deities, emptied, on every invocation, a cup in honour of them.
Seite 96 - The iron manufactory," writes Rev. T. Rudge, at the beginning of this century, "is still carried on, and the metal is esteemed peculiarly good ; but its goodness does not arise from any extraordinary qualities in the ore, but from the practice of working the furnace and forges with charcoal wood, without any mixture of pit coal. The quantity of charcoal required is so considerable, that the furnace cannot be kept in blow...
Seite 96 - Lancashire ore in the furnace requires fifteen or sixteen sacks of charcoal. When the furnace is at work, about twenty tons a week are reduced to pig-iron : in this state it is carried to the forges, where about eight tons a week are hammered out into bars, ploughshares, Kc. ready for the smith.
Seite 185 - It consists of a nave and chancel, with a tower at the west end, containing one bell only.