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Magna Britannia
… very small windows. 1 The great west door of the church of St. Bees is ornamented with grotesque heads and chevron … end of Lanercost Priory church, the east end of that of St. Bees, now in ruins, and the aisles of the choir of … inscribed in Lombardic capitals, " Hic jacet Bartholomeus de Uchtersat 12," i. e. Outerside, one of the hamlets of that …
Magna Britannia
… Pius. In 1721, a pot of Roman coins was found near St. Martin's church: they were of Balbinus, Philippus, Julia … 1774, some Roman coins were found in an earthen vessel in St. Catherine's lane when some houses were rebuilt; one of … the place having been so called before the time of Drewe de Teignton. The natural excavations called Rock basins, …
Magna Britannia
… fought in the churchyard of Bouge, on Easter eve. The Abb de la Rue, in his Memoir on the celebrated tapestry of … running near StauntonHarold, Ticknal, Smithsby, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, proceed by Swebston and Congeston, crossing the …
Magna Britannia
… are several camps and posts at Posbury hill, in Tedburn St. Mary, a camp called Leathern Castle, in Colebrooke …
Magna Britannia
… Castles.] Of Egremont-Castle, which was built by Willam de Meschines, soon after the Conquest, little at present … to have been built about the year 1307, when Robert de Tilliol had the King's licence for castellating his … was probably built soon after the year 1353, when William de Greystoke had the King's licence for castellating his …
Magna Britannia
… plooyth wyth the. ...." In the east window is a figure of St. Ursula, crowned, and surrounded with glory; and beneath … and has a modern painting of the crucifixion, and St. Mary, and St. John. In each of the churches of … King Henry III.; as there is reason to suppose, that Peter de Brampton, who then held the manor of Brampton, was her …
Magna Britannia
… being the coat of Vernon (fretty), the other, those of De Pembruge (barry of six), which Sir Richard Vernon was … to, in right of his mother, the heiress of Sir Fulco de Pembruge, Lord of Tonge-castle in Shropshire. The whole of … the bottom is this inscription, " Constitutus Justiciarius de Banco Communi, 30 Eliz" On the sides are other …
Magna Britannia
… opere exstruc"tum;" which the citizens of Carlisle shewed St. Cuthbert in the year 685, as recorded by Bede. At the … seventeen different subjects from the legend of St. Anthony, the same number from that of St. Austin; and twenty-two from that of St. Cuthbert: with …
Magna Britannia
… was found many years ago near Spurston, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle. British and Roman Roads and Stations, … cui prest Publius lius Publii filius Sergia [tribu] Magnus de Mursa ex Pannonia inferiore prfectus. Aproniano et Bradua … ix. Plate 17. Venerable Bede too in his life of St. Cuthbert mentions another Roman work as existing at …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… fresh FRUIT. For example, the cookery writer, Wynkyn de Worde, in his Boke of Kervynge of 1508 had warned, 'Beware …