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Survey of London
… by a performance of Hamlet, and a musical farce, The Devil to Pay. The seating capacity, according to Wyatt …
Old and New London
… with cloven feet, it was called by the common people 'The Devil;' while the Bacchanalian revellers were transmuted, by …
Cardiff Records
… and resoluteness, was Pain Turberville called Pain the Devil. 15 5 th To Sir Robert S t Quintin he gave the Castle … being invited to see them said that he feared that some Devil of A Welsh Lord would tempt his men to eat of them, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the border of St. Edmund's Land, ( viz. all Suffolk, from Devil's-Ditch to Thetford,) during which time he commanded … of these names may be seen in Gibson's Cambden. The Devil's-Ditch on Newmarket heath. He was a Dane. Fabian, fol. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the dyke is a short pillar of rock which was known as the Devil's Pulpit by 1769. 57 South of Dennelhill Wood the dyke … the ferry at Tintern, 63 crossing Offa's Dyke near the Devil's Pulpit, presumably at the place that was called Abbey … 1769; the name is thought to derive from a legend that the devil once preached to the monks of Tintern from there: ex …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… gives the legend of the laying of the Hothersall Hall devil; ibid. 73. For an account of the Openshaw family see T. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… as the 'Dule upo' Dun,' 23 from its sign representing the Devil galloping madly along upon a dun horse. The story is …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Formby to Nicholas Reynold; the Longdale, Shortdale, and Devil Gap are named in it; ibid. n. 22. Robert was the son …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… attached to it, the depression being known as 'the devil's foot-mark.' 5 A mock manor court was formerly held at …