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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… monastery having been burnt by the Danes, the episcopal chair was removed to St. Germans. But this has been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… and the outer moulded and springing from enriched cushion-capitals with moulded and diapered abaci; the shafts … (Plate 63) probably of woman, in long cloak with head on cushion, 14th-century, much defaced. Panelling: At W. end of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… to the Welsh by the name of Cader Arthur, or Arthur's Chair. On the summit is a small stagnant pool, which wholly … the Black Mountains, and likewise Mynydd-y-Gader, or "the chair mountain;" but which, extending eastward into … Beacons, is called Y Gader Vawr, or "the great chair." The third and last mountain range, requiring …
A New History of London
… retinue of 200 men to the house, and taking the speaker's chair, asked him whether these members were there: the … their estates and lives for the exaltation of the holy chair. And the courage with which they have assaulted the … cap and feather, his long coat, and his very whip and cushion of the same stuff and colour. In this chariot sat the …
A New History of London
… of state, and stood at the right side of the protector's chair, during the solemnity; and the lord-mayor, who carried …
A New History of London
… king was vanished, and the infamous Jefferies being in the chair, he used them very roughly, and they were ordered to be …
A New History of London
… the election of a lord-mayor, all the aldermen under the chair, who have served the office of sheriff, are proposed in … livery-men to nominate the two senior aldermen under the chair; and the court of aldermen, upon the like example, have …
A New History of London
… both to prevent Sir Gilbert Heathcote, then near the chair, and governor of the Bank, who had offended the queen …