Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 72Chetham Society., 1867 - Cheshire (England) |
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Page 2 - III. Chester's Triumph in Honor of her Prince, as it was performed upon St. George's Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. Reprinted from the original edition of 1610, with an Introduction and Notes Edited by the Bev.
Page 129 - Parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 1 - That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general meeting; and that any member who shall be one year in arrcar of his subscription, shall no longer be considered as belonging to the Society.
Page 239 - He married a very beautiful girl, who did not assist him in the inn ; all went wrong ; and poor Wild was taken as a debtor to Lancaster Castle. Hearing a bell ring in the evening, he asked what it was, and was told it was the time for the prisoners to be locked up. He fell down, and expired on the spot. Dick JOHN' WALTER, OF 'THE TIMES/ Crompton became Captain Crompton, and on my telling him about Mortier asking after him, he said, "Oh, I knew Mortier very well in Manchester.
Page 3 - XV. The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, very frutefull for all Christen People to rede.
Page 1 - SOCIETY. 1. That the Society shall be limited to three hundred and fifty members. 2. That the Society shall consist of members being subscribers of one pound annually, such subscription to be paid in advance, on or before the day of general meeting in each year. The first general meeting to be held on the 23rd day of...
Page 223 - Moderate [church] men would divide against the High party. This observation at once opened the eyes of that party, and a counterpetition was procured with all dispatch against the bill, which prevented the scheme ; and the High party had a meeting, which was continued yearly in a grand cavalcade to Chorlton [called in derision "The Chorlton Rant"] for the perpetuation of their triumph; but this is now discontinued.
Page ix - Stuart family, or in other words, of being, in the language of the times, "rank Jacobites."* If perchance, from ignorance of the character of the house, any unhappy whig, any partisan of the house of Hanover, any known member of a dissenting conventicle, strayed into John Shaw's, he found himself in a worse position than that of a solitary wasp in a beehive. Especially if he had the temerity to utter a political opinion, did the house become, in homely phrase, greatly "too hot to hold him ;" and...
Page 112 - Twas the wish of his soul to unbind. His heart was the nest of the dove, There gentleness found an abode. And like the bright day-star, his love For the whole human family glow'd : But that bosom with feeling once fraught, And that tongue, the dispenser of mirth, And those eyes, ever beaming with thought, All, all are descended to earth ! Mr.
Page ix - The high change at Shawe's is about six ; and at eight o'clock every person must quit the house, as no liquor is ever served out after that hour; and should any one be presumptuous enough to stop, Mr. Shawe brings out a whip with a long lash, and proclaiming aloud, " Past eight o'clock, gentlemen,