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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... thefe venerable fraternities we yet have it in our power to make out regular histories , for many ages backwards , of almost all those places where their Monafteries were formerly fituate , the reading of which must give a fecret ...
... thefe venerable fraternities we yet have it in our power to make out regular histories , for many ages backwards , of almost all those places where their Monafteries were formerly fituate , the reading of which must give a fecret ...
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... thefe remain , no room can be left to doubt of the authenticity of what is to be found in the following fheets , efpecially that part thereof which is diftinguifhed by quotation - marks , it being tranflated almoft verbatim from the ...
... thefe remain , no room can be left to doubt of the authenticity of what is to be found in the following fheets , efpecially that part thereof which is diftinguifhed by quotation - marks , it being tranflated almoft verbatim from the ...
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... thefe vifits , we find him mentioned feveral times by Bede at the King's royal palaces , particularly at one he had near Newcastle , " Which was called At the Wall , because it was clofe by that wall with which the Romans for- merly ...
... thefe vifits , we find him mentioned feveral times by Bede at the King's royal palaces , particularly at one he had near Newcastle , " Which was called At the Wall , because it was clofe by that wall with which the Romans for- merly ...
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... thefe other places were by the na- tives called Aidans in the time of the Romans ; fince the Romans were the fame formerly in Britain , that the English and Spaniards are now in America . In that part of the world , we fometimes deign ...
... thefe other places were by the na- tives called Aidans in the time of the Romans ; fince the Romans were the fame formerly in Britain , that the English and Spaniards are now in America . In that part of the world , we fometimes deign ...
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... thefe days it has undergone feveral alterations , yet the main body of it remains ftill the fame , and is a lasting monument of the greatness , power , and wealth of Ofwald ; having stood several centuries longer than the famous temple ...
... thefe days it has undergone feveral alterations , yet the main body of it remains ftill the fame , and is a lasting monument of the greatness , power , and wealth of Ofwald ; having stood several centuries longer than the famous temple ...
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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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Page 126 - But the hermit being a holy and devout man, and at the point of death, sent for the abbot, and desired him to send for the gentlemen who had wounded him. The abbot...
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