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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and robbers, though she was flying the King's jack and pennant. The commander fired two or three patararoes towards …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 26th Sept., 1717. Superscribed, 97. i. Petition of Edward Pennant and Anthony Swymmer, of Jamaica, to the King. Upon …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… into contempt; it is true the present Cheife Justice Pennant is so weake a man that the Bench is grown …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… after a slight skirmish near Cadnant with Major Hugh Pennant's troop of horse, General Mytton's forces advanced … and shipped for the use of painters. "Nature," as Mr. Pennant observes, "has been profuse in bestowing her mineral … on the summit of the same elevation, supposed by Mr. Pennant to be the ruins of a pharos, or lighthouse. At …
Magna Britannia
… of a mile nearly west of the church, in a close called Pennant, is a tumulus, on which stands the lower part of a …
Magna Britannia
… other a cross-flore. There is a figure of this Church in Pennant's tour in Scotland, vol. i. pl. iv. p. 60. Ed. 1760. …
Magna Britannia
… Eve, with lighting fires (the bel-tien) dancing &c. 10 Mr. Pennant says, that the bel-tien superstition was kept up till … figure of it, in Clarke's Survey of the Lakes. Figured in Pennant's Tour in Scotland, Vol. II. Pl 1. fig. 3. It is …
Magna Britannia
… found here are engraved in the first and second volumes of Pennant's Tour in Scotland; one of these, representing a … the middle one holding a vessel of fruit or corn 96. Mr. Pennant conjectures that these are the De matres of some … the annexed Plate, fig. 1. Itin. vol. vii. pl. 1. fig. 69. Pennant's Tour in Scotland, vol. i. pl. xxxv. fig. 1, 2. …
Survey of London
… Wright, Esq." In the account of the Holbein Gate given by Pennant in his Account of London (1790) is a reference to the … in a private hand." It would appear therefore that Pennant was of opinion that the busts preserved had formed … decorative features of the Gate, and J. T. Smith refers to Pennant's account in such terms as to leave no doubt that he, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the spot where the river Cegin enters the grounds of Mr. Pennant; thence along the river to the bridge over the …
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