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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… intrenched round within it, and that, when first made and cast up, it lay wholly without the city wall, and … daughter of king Alfred, repaired its ruins, and in 915 made a strong fortification there called the Doungeon, for …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… utter change since that period, especially when the Danes made such havoc of both place and people in king Ethelred's …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… laws, was wanting here; for notwithstanding this progress made towards it, nothing was done to any purpose at that … no better than before. 2 And there were other attempts made afterwards, one of which was at the latter end of king … that if the river from Fordwich to Canterbury was not made navigable for carriage by water in it by boats of ten …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of time since they had been rebuilt, were grown antient again, and from want of any improvements being made to them, were become unsightly, and the whole city was … dangerous and inconvenient, was changed, and a new one made in a strait line through the Old Castleyard and the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from time to time much raised, as well by the devastations made of it in the time of the Danes, as the several fires … yn one place runneth thorough the cite walle, the which is made there with ii or iii arches for the curse of the … of a great part of this city was in very antient time made on raised ground, appears by the remains of foundations …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… 2However this might be, it seems afterwards to have been again repaired, and archbishop Lanfranc, in the Conqueror's … the whole compass of the city is, as Mr. Somner has made the sum total, in his Appendix, as below recited, 582 … observation, that so much of the wall as stood, and was made up in that, then, as it seems, unwalled part, namely, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to have been until about the time of the new ordination, made by Henry VIII. which appointed two aldermen to every …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… CAP GOLD. Sources: Rates. Cap wire [capwyr] A specially made WIRE designed to keep in shape the elaborate … Caper sauce According to John Houghton, pickled CAPERS made 'an esculent sauce' [Houghton]. Although modern capers … been either plain or scented, was composed of various teas made into hard grains by the addition of GUM or rice-water. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… by Morgan ab Hywel, about the year 900. Having been again destroyed, it was, according to Caradoc of Llancarvan, … to maintain his right to the English crown, and being made prisoner by his younger brother, Henry I., was committed … the feudal system among his tenants, whose spirit being again roused, they advanced, under the command of Ivor ab …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… may be variously accounted for; some allowance must be made for resignations and deaths. The vice-captains may … of great authority; it belonged to a collection which was made in the middle of the last century by the commander of …