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A History of the County of Lancaster
… School. At Daubhole is a great boulder known as the Giant's Stone, the legend being that it was thrown from Rivington Pike by a giant. A local board for Swinton and Pendlebury was formed in … legendary founder of the Worsley family was an Elias the Giant, who lived in the time of the Conqueror, became a …
Old and New London
… In the street died, in 1783, O'Byrne, the famous Irish giant, whom we have already mentioned in our account of the …
Survey of London
… have the additional emphasis of cursorily defined giant pilaster orders. On the northern terrace the houses …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… 30 " Benj. Cranly and Art. Nevill. " For a pass for the Giant of London to Guinea and the Barbadoes. With note that …
Old and New London
… Earl of Warwick, that great warrior, who looms like a giant through the red battle-fields of the Wars of the Roses, …
A Survey of London
… p. 353 for the original draft of the story of Gerard the Giant. This insertion in the text of 1603 explains the …
Old and New London
… new vagaries, Such gay and harmless sport; All looked like giant fairies At this their monarch's court. "Methought, when …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… sparing the lives of those of the opposite party found at Giant and elsewhere, and showing every respect for churches …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… for while it is quite true that the business is taking giant strides forward and has been brought to an excellent …