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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Page xi
... ages , which otherwise could not have come to our knowledge : But for them the history of Eng- land would have been very imperfect , and all the transactions of our Saxon ancestors would have been as much loft to us as are thofe of the ...
... ages , which otherwise could not have come to our knowledge : But for them the history of Eng- land would have been very imperfect , and all the transactions of our Saxon ancestors would have been as much loft to us as are thofe of the ...
Page xii
... age . During the thirty years I have refided at Whitby , I have ( I prefume ) perufed every thing material that is now extant relating to the place : Alfo my business as a furveyor of land has rendered me perfectly acquainted with every ...
... age . During the thirty years I have refided at Whitby , I have ( I prefume ) perufed every thing material that is now extant relating to the place : Alfo my business as a furveyor of land has rendered me perfectly acquainted with every ...
Page xiii
... ages never given to any but the . Emperor ; and that the second and third lines of the infcription contain the remaining titles of that Emperor , feems to me equally clear ; nor is it pof- fible to make out any reading for the third ...
... ages never given to any but the . Emperor ; and that the second and third lines of the infcription contain the remaining titles of that Emperor , feems to me equally clear ; nor is it pof- fible to make out any reading for the third ...
Page xv
... ages when our Monaftery flourished , an image or fhrine of St. Ninian stood in St. Mary's church , to which many devout chriftians came in pilgrimage , and offered up confiderable fums to have the benefit of that Saint's prayers ; so ...
... ages when our Monaftery flourished , an image or fhrine of St. Ninian stood in St. Mary's church , to which many devout chriftians came in pilgrimage , and offered up confiderable fums to have the benefit of that Saint's prayers ; so ...
Page xvii
... ages , the whole being in fo ruinous a condition that in another hun- dred years it must be entirely reduced to a heap of rubbish . When I first began to write the following fheets , it was my defign to add thereto a map of Whitby ...
... ages , the whole being in fo ruinous a condition that in another hun- dred years it must be entirely reduced to a heap of rubbish . When I first began to write the following fheets , it was my defign to add thereto a map of Whitby ...
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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.
Page 126 - Allatson shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as aforesaid ; and to be taken on your backs and carried to the town of Whitby, and so to be there before nine of the clock of the same day afore-mentioned.
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