Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1889 - Electronic journals
 

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Page 26 - Powys siding with him, sorely harried with fire and sword the English who dwelt in those parts, and their towns, and specially the town of Pool. Wherefore the English, invading those parts with a strong power, and utterly laying them waste, and ravaging them with fire, famine, and sword, left them a desert, not even sparing children or churches, nor the monastery of Strata Florida, wherein the king himself was being lodged and the church of which and its choir, even up to the high altar, they used...
Page 267 - Argent and gules, in second and third quarters a fret or, over all a bend sable [Ls DESPENSER].
Page 107 - Reformation are also interpreted by this criterion, according to which their benefices, under a certain value, are exempted from the restriction in the statute 21 Henry VIII. concerning pluralities.
Page 26 - English invaded those parts [Powys] with a strong power, and utterly laying them waste and ravaging them with fire, famine and sword, left them a desert, not even sparing children or churches, nor the monastery of Strata Florida, wherein the king himself was being lodged, and the church of which and its choir, even up to the high altar, they used as a stable, and pillaged even the patens; and they carried away into England more than a thousand children of both sexes to be their servants'.
Page 69 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 343 - sustenen the theft of hir hostilers (ostlers).' 52 The people petitioned parliament and the king interfered accordingly with his wonted useless goodwill. Edward III promulgated, in the twenty-third year of his reign, a statute to constrain ' hostelers et herbergers ' to sell food at reasonable prices ; and again, four years later, tried to put an end to the ' great and outrageous cost of victuals kept up in all the realm by inn-keepers and other retailers of victuals, to the great detriment of the...
Page 106 - The Taxation of Pope Nicholas is a most important record, because all the taxes, as well to our Kings as the Popes, were regulated by it, until the survey made in the twenty-sixth year of Henry VIII ; and because the Statutes of...
Page 26 - Strata-florida, wherein the king himself was being lodged, and the church of which and its choir, even up to the high altar, they used as a stable, and pillaged even the patens ; and they carried away into England more than a thousand children of both sexes to be their servants. Yet did the same Owen do no small hurt to the English, slaying many of them, and carrying off the arms, horses, and tents of the king's eldest son, the prince of Wales, and of other lords, which he bare away for his own behoof...
Page 184 - ... sons, Griffith and Jenkin, from the latter of whom sprang a long succession of knightly descendants. Two of these were created baronets.
Page 43 - It is, therefore, probable that these were the tombs of a knight and his lady, erected during the latter part of the fourteenth or early in the fifteenth century.

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