Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1881 |
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aforesaid ancient Anglo-Celtic barons Bishop Bridgenorth Bridgewater built Bushell called Carbery Castle Celtic Celtic languages Charles Chester Church Corn Cosen Court Cymric daughter and heiress daughter of Sir Davies Earle of Carbery earthworks Edward Elizabeth England English estates extenso feet Flintshire Gael George Gwynn Gloucester Golden Grove Griffith Gwynn and William hall heir held Henry VIII Hereford issue Justices King Knight land letter Lloyd Lord Brackley Lord President Lordships Ludlow Ludlow Castle Madoc Manx Marca Marches of Wales married Melverley mound Offa's Dyke original Owen Pembroke Pembrokeshire Petition Phell pounds Prays present President of Wales probably querns quod reign Rhys Richard Vaughan Robert Blanchard Roman Salop Saxon says shew Shires Shropshire Sir William Brereton Stephen Stokesay stone sume Thomas tion tower town unto vowel w'ch wall Welsh wife William Dickenson words
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Page 74 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb : The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 306 - But the ordinary chastisement was the bastinado, a stroke or two on the palm with that almost obsolete weapon now,— the ferule. A ferule was a sort of flat ruler, widened, at the inflicting end, into a shape resembling a pear, — but nothing like so sweet, with a delectable hole in the middle to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass.
Page 112 - I will not take upon myaelf to affirm. There is a theory that they were preceded by a Gaelic race, who were gradually driven westward, and either exterminated or forced to cross the channel to Ireland. Professor Rhys in his excellent work on Welsh Philology alludes to this theory, but holds it to be untenable. It may be so, but there are traditions which point in that direction, and which it is difficult to account for in any other way. The circular bases of huts sunk in the ground, which are found...
Page 93 - If you go to Nun Keling, you shall find your belly filling of whig or of whay ; Bat go to Swine, and come betime, or else you go empty away. But the Abbot of Meaus doth keep a good house by night and by day.
Page 204 - November in the two and twentieth yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Page 191 - Bridgewater entered upon his official residence at Ludlow castle with great solemnity. On this occasion he was attended by a large concourse of the neighbouring nobility and gentry. Among the rest came his children; in particular, Lord Brackley, Mr. Thomas Egerton, and Lady Alice, ——To attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre.
Page 191 - that Lord Bridgewater being appointed Lord President of Wales, entered upon his official residence at Ludlow Castle with great solemnity. On this occasion he was attended by a large concourse of the neighbouring nobility and gentry. Among the rest came his children ; in particular Lord Bracley, Mr.
Page 191 - They had been on a visit at a house of their relations the Egerton family in Herefordshire; and in passing through Haywood forest were benighted, and the Lady Alice was even lost for a short time. This accident, which in the end was attended with no bad consequences, furnished the subject of a Mask for a Michaelmas festivity, and produced Comus.
Page 210 - Sheifeild his heirs, successors, and assignes The one Moyety of all such Mynes as shall be discovered, or found out at any...
Page 126 - all the Lords of the Marches of Wales shall be perpetually attending and annexed to the Crown of England, as they and their ancestors have been at all times past, and not to the Principality of Wales".