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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… surnamed Gwynedd, resident in the castle, from which that prince subsequently removed to a place called Penrhn, also in … predicted, and was there interred. The successors of this prince usually resided either at Deganwy, or at Caer Seiont, … unsuccessful attack was made on the fortress by the Welsh prince, Llewelyn ab Iorwerth; it was surrendered to him two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ministers, for whom were substituted, at the desire of the Black Prince, in 1358, a reformed order of Augustine friars, called …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… upon it, we will get one'. They went on: 'If by the black hearse-cloth he meant a black pall, we have not one belonging to the parish: nor are …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for the murder of James I. in the monastery of the Black Friars at Perth. In 1447, James II., by charter dated … of England, with his queen Margaret and his son Edward, Prince of Wales, after the defeat of his army at the battle … length, and twenty-two feet wide; the floor is laid with black and white marble, and the whole of the interior has …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Lady Chapel) are all of the 17th century. The bowl of the black marble font dating from c. 1890 rests on a medieval …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… lands is in some parts a brown loam alternated with a rich black mould, and in others light, dry, and gravelly, with … with hedge-rows of thorn intermixed with forest trees. The black-cattle reared in the pastures are principally of the … as having been the first place upon which the unfortunate prince Charles Stuart landed, in his wild enterprise to …
Middlesex county records
… Botolph's-without-Aldgate, co. Midd., yeoman, and Thomas Black, late of the said parish, yeoman, assaulted a certain … charging them with this offence, Mary Gwyn and Thomas Black both confessed the indictment, whereupon the sentence … it is certain that, in the time when Mary Gwyn and Thomas Black, convicted on their own confession of spiriting Alice …
Middlesex county records
… for their country's good, were the comparatively few black sheep of a numerous and chivalric body of Englishmen, … It does not appear from the Middlesex archives, that these black sheep of gentle birth and shameful life bore a larger … these were the grander and more heroic villanies of the black sheep of the gentle grade, who, committing these and …