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Magna Britannia
… and British-Roman Antiquities. Cornwall abounds with the rude memorials of its early inhabitants, much resembling those which remain in Ireland, in Wales, and in the northern parts of this island, consisting of large … little room for doubting it: the inscription is much less perfect than it appears to have been in Dr. Borlase's …
Magna Britannia
… church architecture Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon. The remains of Saxon architecture in the Devonshire churches are neither numerous nor particularly … they are distinguished by clustered columns, more or less ornamented with foliage, and by arches of a pointed …
Magna Britannia
… Remains of Saxon architecture are to be seen in many of the churches of Cumberland, though few of them are entitled … Isell, and Kirkbampton churches are in the same style, but less ornamented; within the arch of the north door-way of the … left arm is much better preserved, and is evidently the holy lamb. The east side is filled with an elegant scroll …
Magna Britannia
… Enclosures. Grimspound, as it is called, is situated in the parish of Manaton, about three miles from that village, among the moors, and under a lofty tract of moorland, called … to the opposite bank. Of course, it is more difficult and less important to point out their precise situation. The …
Magna Britannia
… British and Roman Antiquities. British Antiquities. The barren moors of Derbyshire abound with rude masses of … and single stones of large sizes appearing above the surface, as those of granite do in Cornwall; and here, as … and stamped with the name of the reigning emperor; no less than three of which have been found in the neighbourhood …
Magna Britannia
… Ecclesiastical Ancient Church Architecture. Saxon. Of the ecclesiastical edifices of Derbyshire, the crypt under … vaulted with circular arches, supported by four columns of less massy proportions than those of the later Saxon … of the inscription restored by John Ashbridge, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge. There can be little doubt of the …
Magna Britannia
… Antiquities Roman Antiquities. British Antiquities. Of the rude memorials of the early inhabitants of this island, a considerable number … Ad Fines. "From the celebrated station above Maryport, no less than three Roman Roads have been discovered in different …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Apaveris - Apulia oil Apaveris Probably Papaveris (PAPAVER, the Latin for POPPY) was intended. It was found as an OIL among apothecary goods. Not found in the OED See also PAPAVER, POPPY. Sources: Inventories … shops for adulteration, though the College had more or less ceased to do so by the eighteenth century, and it never …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Apethorpe AN INVENTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENTS IN NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE … is a parish of 723 hectares in Rockingham Forest, the village lying near Willow Brook. It incorporates the … rooms being entirely sacrificed to the arcades. In the less ambitious scheme which was adopted, the S. range was …
The London eyre of 1244
… de Braunchesfeld, et alius plegius obiit. Of Appeals. In the twenty-second year [1237–8]: Thomas of Folkestone appealed Peter of Harrow of a breach of the king's peace, but he does not come. Therefore he and his … that on Saturday after the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the twenty-fifth year [4 May 1241], about the …