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Magna Britannia
… The Rev. Mr. Penneck, keeper of the reading-room at the British Museum, who died in 1803, was the last of this family. …
Magna Britannia
… of Dartmoor, p. 314. of the Parochial History. MS. in the British Museum. From the information of Lord Fortescue, who has …
Magna Britannia
… derived from their habitations. Tre, in the Cornish or British language, signifies a town, village, or dwelling, as …
Magna Britannia
… Russian service, father of Captain Henry Fanshawe of the British navy. Arms: Or, a chevron between three fleurs de …
Magna Britannia
… and the learned Leland, who was so deeply versed in British chronicles, has given us as the result of what he had …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… courage, conduct, and activity, in their commands in the British army and navy, would have done honor to antient Rome; … of this name is from the situation of the place, the British land here extending itself with an angle, or large … it to posterity. And we have no particular account of the British coasts, which might determine this question, earlier …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… owed most of his success; in particular, the murder of the British lords, mentioned above, will always remain an … discord that reigned among their respective princes. The British historians give such a character of these petty …
Magna Britannia
… record of such. MS, History of Derbyshire in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… danger the royal docks and magazines at Chatham, and the British navy itself lay exposed to, from the defenceless … of England, the name is supposed to be derived from the British words, Es Dr, (or [To udor]) signifying the water; … Durwhern, and afterwards, in Latin, Durovernum. The above British name, Es Dr, was afterwards latinized into Estura, or …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of corn against winter made for them here. As soon as the British chiefs, who had been assembled to perform their … in, when he had learned from the prisoners, where the British forces were posted, about midnight Csar marched in … were on their march they were briskly attacked by the British horse and chariots, whom they repulsed, with great …