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... , and presenting them with the form and pressure of a more modern and popular feeling stamped upon them . For this reason , some unimportant circumstances related in former histories are here omitted 2 INTRODUCTION .
... , and presenting them with the form and pressure of a more modern and popular feeling stamped upon them . For this reason , some unimportant circumstances related in former histories are here omitted 2 INTRODUCTION .
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From the Earliest to the Present Times Robert Carruthers. some unimportant circumstances related in former histories are here omitted ; and a vast quantity of new and original matter has been brought to bear upon the various depart ...
From the Earliest to the Present Times Robert Carruthers. some unimportant circumstances related in former histories are here omitted ; and a vast quantity of new and original matter has been brought to bear upon the various depart ...
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... former possessions ; which they continued to occupy as an independent state , until the famous battle of Brunanburgh , in the year 934 , effectually secured to Athelstan the throne of his ancestors , and the subjugation his conqueror ...
... former possessions ; which they continued to occupy as an independent state , until the famous battle of Brunanburgh , in the year 934 , effectually secured to Athelstan the throne of his ancestors , and the subjugation his conqueror ...
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... former part of this , ( the paucity of ancient families ) Camden just- ly observes , that the county being small , and most of the lands belonging to the ab- beys ; many of them , upon the dissolution by Henry VIII . , fell into the ...
... former part of this , ( the paucity of ancient families ) Camden just- ly observes , that the county being small , and most of the lands belonging to the ab- beys ; many of them , upon the dissolution by Henry VIII . , fell into the ...
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... former conquests ; and although the inhabitants can neither boast the longe- vity , nor the luxuries of their former pre- occupants , yet they find ample means of subsistence ; and if strangers happen to survive the first years of their ...
... former conquests ; and although the inhabitants can neither boast the longe- vity , nor the luxuries of their former pre- occupants , yet they find ample means of subsistence ; and if strangers happen to survive the first years of their ...
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Abbey acres afterwards Aldermen ancient Anglo Saxons annum bailiffs bailiffs and burgesses Bishop of Lincoln Borough aforesaid borough of Huntingdon bridge Cambridge Camden Castle chapel charity Charles charter confirmed Countess Judith county of Huntingdon Court customs daughter David death died Domesday book Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Sandwich Earldom East Anglia elected Elizabeth England Fens Gaol George Godmanchester granted heirs Henry VIII Hinchinbrook honour Hunting Huntingdonshire Iceni inhabitants James Justices king Edward king of Scotland King's kingdom kingdom of England Knight land Lane Lionel Walden Lord the King Mary Mary's Master Mayor ment Montague Neots Nunnery Oliver Cromwell Ouse parish of St Parliament persons poor possession precincts thereof present Prior of Huntingdon Priory Protector Queen Ramsey reign rent Richard Roman Saints Sawtry says Sheriff Simon Sir Robert soull successors Thomas tingdon tion town of Huntingdon Waldeof William yearly
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Page 213 - When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes.
Page 226 - I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman (for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). Icame into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor...
Page 223 - Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer : — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Page 200 - had been rejected, he would have sold all he had " the next morning, and never have seen England " more ; and he knew there were many other " honest men of the same resolution.
Page 156 - Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together, By some more strong in mischiefs than myself, Must I for that be made a common sink, For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one; urging, That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) Forespeaks their cattle,* doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse. This they enforce...
Page 224 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Page 156 - And why on me ? why should the envious world Throw all their scandalous malice upon me ? 'Cause I am poor, deform'd, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent together By some more strong in mischiefs than myself; Must I for that be made a common sink For all the filth and rubbish of men's tongues To fall and run into ? Some call me Witch, And being ignorant, of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one...