Yorkshire: An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; with Ample Accounts of Doncaster and Conisbrough; and of the Villages, Hamlets, Churches, Antiquities, and Other Matters Connected Therewith |
Contents
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Common terms and phrases
abbey abbot acres aforesaid altar amongst ancient annum appear Austerfield Awkley Bawtry Bede Bishop borough Bosvill Braithwell Brian Cooke Britain British burgesses called carucates castle chantry chapel character charter church Conisbrough Cooke Copley county of York Crowle crown daughter Doncaster Duke Earl Ebor edifice Edward Edward III England erected Finningley former Fossard friars grant Hatfield heirs Henry VIII Hexthorpe Hist honour hundred Idem interred Isle of Axholme John King King's lands latter Lord manner manors of Doncaster Mary Miller monasteries monks moss neighbourhood Norman observed occasion original oxgangs parish period Peter de Maulay portion present prior probable Pryme Regis reign of Henry rendered Richard river Robert Roman Sandall Saxon says soke Sprotbrough stone suppose Tacitus tenants thereof Thomas Tickhill town of Doncaster vicinity village walls wapentake Warren Weever wife William wood
Popular passages
Page clxxxii - What barbarous invader sack'd the land ? But when he hears no Goth, no Turk, did bring This desolation, but a Christian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs...
Page lxxxiii - May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page cxxii - But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Page 71 - ... emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.
Page 52 - Sec., have granted to him the ninth lamb, the ninth fleece, and the ninth sheaf, to be taken by two years then next to come. And of cities and boroughs the very ninth part of all their goods and chattels...
Page 200 - No constable shall distrain any knight for to give money for keeping of his castle, if he himself will do it in his proper person, or cause it to be done by another sufficient man, if he may not do it himself for a reasonable cause ; and if we do lead or send him in an army, he shall be free from castleward for the time that he shall be with us in fee in our host, for the which he hath done service in our wars.
Page cxxii - Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Page cxxii - Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Page 56 - ... (whom they had not disarmed) standing by him, he pulled his foot out of the stirrup, and cried, Arms, arms! Upon this, one of our men letting his pistol and sword fall, because he would not kill him, catcht hold of him, and they grappling together, both fell down in the street.
Page cxxii - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.