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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... town , though in many places I am fenfible it fignifies no more than a village , and even fometimes a bamlet ; but these are diftinétions that could not always be perly made , nor do I look upon it as a thing any way material ; yet I ...
... town , though in many places I am fenfible it fignifies no more than a village , and even fometimes a bamlet ; but these are diftinétions that could not always be perly made , nor do I look upon it as a thing any way material ; yet I ...
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... town , a river , or a mountain ; and thus did the Romans heretofore in Bri- tain But when we come to form a fettlement , or fix a plantation there , we do not then apply to the favages to give particular names to the different parts ...
... town , a river , or a mountain ; and thus did the Romans heretofore in Bri- tain But when we come to form a fettlement , or fix a plantation there , we do not then apply to the favages to give particular names to the different parts ...
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... Town and Abbey of Streanfbalh experienced their vengeance , where every Monk that fell into their hands was put to the fword , and every Nun they met with was firft deflowered ; and then generally afterwards put to death in cold blood ...
... Town and Abbey of Streanfbalh experienced their vengeance , where every Monk that fell into their hands was put to the fword , and every Nun they met with was firft deflowered ; and then generally afterwards put to death in cold blood ...
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... town , in Normandy , of which their ancestors were Lords ; and they seem to have been of confiderable rank before their arrival in England , inasmuch as Serlo , the younger brother , was the tutor , or ( as fome will have it ) the ...
... town , in Normandy , of which their ancestors were Lords ; and they seem to have been of confiderable rank before their arrival in England , inasmuch as Serlo , the younger brother , was the tutor , or ( as fome will have it ) the ...
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... town there ; and from them it took the deno- mination of Flammenville , Flammeville , Fleinefburgh , or Flambrough , by fome of which names it has been known ever fince . The church there was in the next century ceded to the priory of ...
... town there ; and from them it took the deno- mination of Flammenville , Flammeville , Fleinefburgh , or Flambrough , by fome of which names it has been known ever fince . The church there was in the next century ceded to the priory of ...
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