Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1863 - Electronic journals
 

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Page 36 - Shee had no more left on her, But a tassell and a threed: Then every knight in the kings court Bade evill might shee speed.
Page 343 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.
Page 216 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 93 - ... whole. Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned, for then it will loop, ie melt and run together in a mass. After it is burnt, they beat it into small pieces with an iron sledge, and then put it into the furnace (which is before charged with coals...
Page 94 - This done, they immediately return it to the finery again, and, after two or three heats and workings, they bring it to an ancony, the figure whereof is, in the middle, a bar about three feet long, of that shape they intend the whole bar to be made of it ; at both ends a square piece left rough to be wrought at the chafery. Note. At the finery three load of the biggest coals go to make one tun of iron.
Page 328 - This year Ceawlin and Cutha fought against the Britons at the place which is called Fethan-lea, [Frethern ?] and there was Cutha slain ; and Ceawlin took many towns, and spoils innumerable; and wrathful he thence returned to his own.
Page 37 - Some threwe them under the table, And swore that they had none. Sir Cradock had a little knife, Of steel and iron made ; And in an instant thro' the skull He thrust the shining blade.
Page 93 - The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of a sandstone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout ; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. " When they begin upon a new furnace, they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow. " Then they blow gently, and encrease by degrees 'till they come to the height, in ten weeks or more.
Page 34 - IN the third day of may, To Carleile did come A kind curteous child, That cold much of wisdome. A kirtle and a mantle This child had uppon, With ' brouches' and ringes Full richelye bedone.
Page 37 - He pulld forth a wood kniffe. Fast thither that he ran : He brought in the bores head, And quitted him like a man.

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