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... took place , which elicited the following reply from the late Earl of Shaftesbury : : - The whole of Woodlands now belongs to me . The greater part of it was bought by my late brother soon after he came of age . I knew nothing of ...
... took place , which elicited the following reply from the late Earl of Shaftesbury : : - The whole of Woodlands now belongs to me . The greater part of it was bought by my late brother soon after he came of age . I knew nothing of ...
Strana 10
... took refuge at the Castle of Kildrummie , from whence they retreated , in the hope of greater security , to the sanctuary of St. Duthac , at Tain , in Ross - shire . The Earl of Ross , it is said , violated the sanctuary , and delivered ...
... took refuge at the Castle of Kildrummie , from whence they retreated , in the hope of greater security , to the sanctuary of St. Duthac , at Tain , in Ross - shire . The Earl of Ross , it is said , violated the sanctuary , and delivered ...
Strana 24
... took advantage of the pro- posal was M. de Tascher , the father of Josephine . In the course of the year 1763 he came over to St. Lucia , and settled with his family on the crest of a hill called Paix- Bouche , within a few miles of the ...
... took advantage of the pro- posal was M. de Tascher , the father of Josephine . In the course of the year 1763 he came over to St. Lucia , and settled with his family on the crest of a hill called Paix- Bouche , within a few miles of the ...
Strana 31
... took place some days after he was wounded , arose from the bursting of a pistol , which belonged to a case of pistols presented to him by Sir Robert Pye , his son - in - law , adding , that when Sir Robert visited Hampden in his last ...
... took place some days after he was wounded , arose from the bursting of a pistol , which belonged to a case of pistols presented to him by Sir Robert Pye , his son - in - law , adding , that when Sir Robert visited Hampden in his last ...
Strana 37
... took place on the 15th of May at four o'clock in the morning in the presence - chamber at Holyrood ; and that on the following morning a paper , with this ominous verse , was fixed on the palace gate : - “ Mense malas Maio nubere vulgus ...
... took place on the 15th of May at four o'clock in the morning in the presence - chamber at Holyrood ; and that on the following morning a paper , with this ominous verse , was fixed on the palace gate : - “ Mense malas Maio nubere vulgus ...
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Strana 226 - Peters; others also were nominated, but none concluded. Robert Spavin, so soon as dinner was done, took me by the hand, and carried me to the south window : saith he, " These are all mistaken, they have not named the man that did the fact: it was lieutenant-colonel...
Strana 310 - I am the same man in every respect that I have ever been; I retain the same principles. It is true, that I cannot now curse (smiling) the house of Hanover; nor would it be decent for me to drink King James's health in the wine that King George gives me money to pay for. But, Sir, I think that the pleasure of cursing the house of Hanover, and drinking King James's health, are amply overbalanced by three hundred pounds a year.
Strana 221 - Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head...
Strana 138 - Temple speaks, (/) a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Strana 138 - They could not leave their lord without his permission ; but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or other chattels. They held indeed small portions of land by way of sustaining themselves and families ; but it was at the mere will of the lord, who might dispossess them whenever he pleased...
Strana 135 - For the children of villeins were also in the same state of bondage with their parents; whence they were called in Latin nativi, which gave rise to the female appellation of a villein, who was called a neife (m).
Strana 284 - Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick and chyrurgery.
Strana 211 - The validity of this marriage being afterwards tried at Common Law, the minister who married them being present, and other circumstances agreeing, the jury (whereof John Digby, Esq., was foreman) found it a good marriage.
Strana 167 - With that the Cardinal, taking a good advisement among them, at the last quoth he, ' Me seemeth the gentleman with the black beard should be even he.' And with that he arose out of his chair, and offered the same to the gentleman in the black beard, with his cap in his hand. The person to whom he offered...
Strana 93 - ... the spring which followed the death of Monmouth, was borne the coffin of the young Baroness Wentworth of Nettlestede. Her family reared a sumptuous mausoleum over her remains : but a less costly memorial of her was long contemplated with far deeper interest. Her name, carved by the hand of him whom she loved too well, was, a few years ago, still discernible on a tree in the adjoining park.