The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme: Being that Part of Lincolnshire which is West of TrentLongman, Rees, Orme, & Company, 1839 - 463 pages |
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Page iv
... original subinfeudatory , I am not able to say . Richard d'Amcotts is returned in the reign of Edward the Second , as possessed of a small property there . This Manor of Epworth and Westwood remained in the family of Mowbray for upwards ...
... original subinfeudatory , I am not able to say . Richard d'Amcotts is returned in the reign of Edward the Second , as possessed of a small property there . This Manor of Epworth and Westwood remained in the family of Mowbray for upwards ...
Page xvi
... original of this map is in the office of the Stewards of the Participants ' , at Doncaster . There is a very antient copy , on parch- ment , made about the same time , in the archives of Temple , and another in the possession of Lord ...
... original of this map is in the office of the Stewards of the Participants ' , at Doncaster . There is a very antient copy , on parch- ment , made about the same time , in the archives of Temple , and another in the possession of Lord ...
Page 11
... original Britons , as well as between the Chiefs of Mercia and North - Humbria ; and also with the Danes , who frequently sailed up the Trent during their attempt to gain possession of the interior parts of England . The common road of ...
... original Britons , as well as between the Chiefs of Mercia and North - Humbria ; and also with the Danes , who frequently sailed up the Trent during their attempt to gain possession of the interior parts of England . The common road of ...
Page 20
... original is in French . A small glimmer of light is hereby thrown on the state of the country at this period . First , we learn that the low lands which , in more remote ages , were dry , had become marsh , and the fen full of a decayed ...
... original is in French . A small glimmer of light is hereby thrown on the state of the country at this period . First , we learn that the low lands which , in more remote ages , were dry , had become marsh , and the fen full of a decayed ...
Page 37
... original state not worth owning , has been converted into a soil of the first rate fertility , producing abundant crops of wheat , beans , oats , clover , seeds , and potatoes ; and which lets readily from thirty to fifty shillings per ...
... original state not worth owning , has been converted into a soil of the first rate fertility , producing abundant crops of wheat , beans , oats , clover , seeds , and potatoes ; and which lets readily from thirty to fifty shillings per ...
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Abbot acres Adlingfleet afterwards AGED Althorpe Amcotts amongst antient appears banks Beltoft Belton buried called Cavell channel Chapel Charles Church Cornelius Vermuyden Court Croule Crowle daughter died Doncaster drainage drains Duke of Hereford Duke of Norfolk Earl east Eastoft Edward Elizabeth England Epworth erected expence Ferry freeholders Gainsbrough ground Hatfield Haxey Henry honour hundred inclosure inhabitants Isle of Axholme James Johnson Keadby King Knight Labourer land late Lincoln living Lord Luddington Manor of Epworth married Melwood MEMORY Mowbray Owston parish of Owston Participants peat person Popplewell possession pounds present Prymne Rector reign rent Richard river Trent Robert Roger Roger de Mowbray Sandtoft says Selby selions Sewers Sheffield shillings side Sir John small owner stone Stovin Thomas Thos tides trees Vicar warp Waterton Wesley West Butterwick wife William Wirce Wroot Yorkshire
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Page vi - I will open my mouth in a parable ! I will utter dark sayings of old : Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
Page 421 - And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, And never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, And the worms shall cover them.
Page 155 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours: and their works do follow them.
Page 201 - They did so, and he took me out of the window. Just then the roof fell; but it fell inward, or we had all been crushed at once.
Page vi - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
Page 276 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, And by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, Wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page 176 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 191 - At six, as soon as family prayers were over, they had their supper; at seven the maid washed them; and, beginning at the youngest, she undressed and got them all to bed by eight; at which time she left them in their several rooms awake — for there was no such thing allowed of in our house as sitting by a child till it fell asleep.
Page 332 - He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack : but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Page 209 - An't please your worship, they have convarted my wife. Till she went among them, she had such a tongue ; and now she is as quiet as a lamb.' ' Carry them back, carry them back,' replied the justice, ' and let them convert all the scolds in the town...