Excursions in the county of Surrey [by T.K. Cromwell. With an additional engr. title-leaf dated 1822].Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Greig; and P. Youngman, 1821 - Surrey (England) - 190 pages |
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... King be Hall Grove Windlesh Addington Bagsho 20 Leddon R. Sandhurst Blackwater Br 15 . AM P Chobh Obelisk Brister F Fern Hill Bisley Farlagh Frimley rlingham Bisley Green South End Basingstoke Car Chelsham Frint Still Firbright Block ...
... King be Hall Grove Windlesh Addington Bagsho 20 Leddon R. Sandhurst Blackwater Br 15 . AM P Chobh Obelisk Brister F Fern Hill Bisley Farlagh Frimley rlingham Bisley Green South End Basingstoke Car Chelsham Frint Still Firbright Block ...
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... king of the West Saxons , completed its conquest , together with that of the adjoining county of Kent , in the year 725 . The people whom the Romans found in possession of this county , and of Sussex , on their arrival , were the ...
... king of the West Saxons , completed its conquest , together with that of the adjoining county of Kent , in the year 725 . The people whom the Romans found in possession of this county , and of Sussex , on their arrival , were the ...
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... King John , we are told , " followed the example of his brother and father in afforesting the lands of his subjects , so that the forests were every where so much enlarged , that the greatest part of the kingdom was turned into forests ...
... King John , we are told , " followed the example of his brother and father in afforesting the lands of his subjects , so that the forests were every where so much enlarged , that the greatest part of the kingdom was turned into forests ...
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... king still enjoys a right and property over his deer escaping into it , against every man but the owners of the woods or lands in which they are found , but which is exempted from the laws of the forest , and the ordinary jurisdiction ...
... king still enjoys a right and property over his deer escaping into it , against every man but the owners of the woods or lands in which they are found , but which is exempted from the laws of the forest , and the ordinary jurisdiction ...
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... king at will , sometimes for life , and afterwards in fee : but when it could , no longer be commodiously executed by a person of such superior rank and quality , SURREY . 5 owe their institution, there is good reason to believe...
... king at will , sometimes for life , and afterwards in fee : but when it could , no longer be commodiously executed by a person of such superior rank and quality , SURREY . 5 owe their institution, there is good reason to believe...
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Page 96 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 95 - King Henry making a Masque at the cardinal Wolsey's House, and certain Cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the Paper, or other stuff", wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 64 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O Teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Page 96 - were kept bears, bulls, and other beasts to be baited, as also mastiffs in several kennels, nourished to bait them. These bears and other beasts are there kept in plots of ground scaffolded about for the beholders to stand safe.
Page 112 - E'en such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done.
Page 33 - On the ground-floor are eight spacious rooms, besides the hall of entrance, and the great staircase. In the principal front, a flight of thirteen steps, leads to the great entrance, under a pediment supported by Corinthian columns. The situation is well chosen, commanding various views of the water and plantations in the park.
Page 64 - The Castle of Indolence,' &c. who died at Richmond, on the 22nd of August, and was buried there on the 29th, OS 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
Page 95 - The King's players had a new play, called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 169 - While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow). I seem through consecrated walks to rove ; I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound, I roam from shade to shade, By godlike poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.
Page 95 - ... which fell out by a peal of chambers, (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play) the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that...