 Cuthred met and overthrew him there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory the custom of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added...  Nottinghamshire - Somersetshire - الصفحة 413بواسطة Thomas Cox - 1738عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Robert Plot - 1705 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...there was depicted a golden Dragon } ; in Memory of which ffi&wy, perhaps theCuftom (yet within Memory) of making a 'Dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the Town in great Jollify on Midfummer Eve, to which (I kwow not for what Reafbn) they added z might likely enough be... | |
 | Gentleman of the Inner Temple, Sir Bartholomew Shower - 1735 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...whereon was depifted a Golden Dragon; in Remembrance of which Vic* tory, the Cuftom (yet within Memory) of making a Dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the Town in great Jollity on Midfammer Eve, to which thejf added the Pifture of a Giant, was in all Likelihood firft inflituted.... | |
 | White Kennett - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...town, betwixt it and Upton. In memory of which victory perhaps the custom (yet within memory} of mahing a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer eve, to which (/ know not for what reason) they added a giant, might likely enough be first... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...death.'— Aubrey MS., AD 1686. There was formerly a custom on Midsummer Eve at Burford, in Oxfordshire, of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the streets in great jollity, Sac.—Kennett MS. *25. CURIOUS CUSTOM AT ST. MARY-AT-HILL, LONDON. ' There... | |
 | 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...History of Oxfordshire,' p. 349, mentions a custom at Burford, in that county (yet within memory), of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer eve, to which they added a. giant. At Dunkirk and Douay it has been an immemorial custom,... | |
 | Joseph Hemingway - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...occasions. Dr. Plott, in his history of Oxfordshire, mentions a custom at Burford, in that county, of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve, to which he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a Giant. In the printed accounts... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...his History of Oxfordshire, p. 349, mentions a custom at Burford in that county (yet within memory), of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve ; to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a giant. It is curious to... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory, the custom of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted.4... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...winning his banner, whereon was ck-picted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory, the custom of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted.4... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory the custom of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted."... | |
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