The History of Whitby, and of Whitby Abbey: Collected from the Original Records of the Abbey, and Other Authentic Memoirs, Never Before Made Public. Containing, Not Only the History of Whitby and the Country Adjacent, But Also the Original and Antiquity of Many Particular Families and Places in Other Parts of Yorkshire. Divided Into Three Books ...A. Ward; and sold in London by T. Cadell ... and G. Robinson ... : As also by all the Booksellers in York; and by J. Monkman, Bookseller in Whitby, 1779 - Whitby (England) - 379 pages |
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... seems in a great measure owing to its lying more than a yard under the earth's furface . That it refers to the Emperor Juftinian will hardly admit of a difpute , especially when it is confidered that the epi- thet of P. P. or Pater ...
... seems in a great measure owing to its lying more than a yard under the earth's furface . That it refers to the Emperor Juftinian will hardly admit of a difpute , especially when it is confidered that the epi- thet of P. P. or Pater ...
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... seems to me they have not carefully perused thefe Monkish writers , otherwise they would not have afferted fuch an abfurdity : For , if we compare Malmesbury , lib . i . cap . 4 , with Bede , lib . iii . cap . 24 , we may eafi- ly ...
... seems to me they have not carefully perused thefe Monkish writers , otherwise they would not have afferted fuch an abfurdity : For , if we compare Malmesbury , lib . i . cap . 4 , with Bede , lib . iii . cap . 24 , we may eafi- ly ...
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... seems done defignedly , and on purpose that every one might therein follow the cuftom that feemed to him moft agreeable : " It being ( to use the words of Socrates the Greek hiftorian ) the defign of Chrift and his apostles , not to ...
... seems done defignedly , and on purpose that every one might therein follow the cuftom that feemed to him moft agreeable : " It being ( to use the words of Socrates the Greek hiftorian ) the defign of Chrift and his apostles , not to ...
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... seems was not exploded in the days of Camden ; about which , however , that learned antiquarian had a good op- portunity for getting information , as he spent more than three weeks at Whitby , fearching and examining the antiquities and ...
... seems was not exploded in the days of Camden ; about which , however , that learned antiquarian had a good op- portunity for getting information , as he spent more than three weeks at Whitby , fearching and examining the antiquities and ...
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... seem not much to have infested any of these Provinces north of the Hum- ber before the reign of Redowald , anno 845 , when they arrived in fuch num- bers on our coafts , that they ventured to give that Monarch battle , flew him in the ...
... seem not much to have infested any of these Provinces north of the Hum- ber before the reign of Redowald , anno 845 , when they arrived in fuch num- bers on our coafts , that they ventured to give that Monarch battle , flew him in the ...
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Page 126 - Each of you shall do, make, and execute the said service, at that very hour, every year, except it be full sea at that hour ; but when it shall so fall out, this service shall cease.
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