Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders, المجلد 27

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The Club, 1893
 

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الصفحة 281 - You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ? " He to the Cornishman said. But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the Wedding was done And left my wife in the porch. But i...
الصفحة 336 - Soon after we came to Welch-Pool, those professors, who had been and were in great power, began to be faint-hearted, because of the report of bringing in king Charles the second ; which in a little time was accomplished, and those that were in great pomp, were brought to prison themselves.
الصفحة 286 - After the death of that Saint, the waters were almost as sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda : all Infirmities incident to the human body met with relief: the votive Crutches, the Barrows, and other Proofs of Cures, to this moment remain as evidences pendent over the Well.
الصفحة 148 - Earl of Angus ; but they could not agree, so a precontract was proved against him, upon which, by a sentence from Rome, the marriage was voided, with a clause in favour of the issue, since born under a marriage de facto and bona fide.
الصفحة 39 - There is a beauty in this vale which is not frequent in others of these mountainous countries ; the inclosures are all divided by excellent quickset hedges, and run far up the sides of the hills, in places so steep that the common traveller would scarcely find footing. Numbers of little groves are interspersed, and the hills above them show a fine turf to the top, where the bog and heath commence which give shelter to the multitudes of red grouse, and a few black.
الصفحة 270 - Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour.
الصفحة 345 - Montgomery, and a fee farm rent, worth together £105 a year. She devised the same to her executor to the end that he may within two years after her decease well and sufficiently convey the same to the Company and Society of Grocers in London in fee — or to some members of that Company in such sort as Counsel] should advise— The rents and profits whereof she appointed limited and declared should be received by such Wardens and assistants of the said Company for the time being for ever— and...
الصفحة 148 - ... of, and might have induced the earl of Gowry to have wished to put king James out of the way, but in such a disguised manner that he should seem rather to have escaped out of a snare...
الصفحة 148 - He had only a daughter, who was mother or grandmother to the earl of Gowry : so that by this he might be glad to put the king out of the way, that so he might stand next to the succession of the crown of England.
الصفحة 270 - Many authorities might be quoted in support of the antiquity of this elegant custom, which had its origin anterior to the introduction of Christianity. It was mingled with the rites and ceremonies of...

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