Memoirs Chiefly Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Northumberland, Volume 2Bell and Daldy, 1858 - Northumberland (England) |
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... Durham , remorselessly cutting through and mutilating the works of their predecessors , not even continuing their mouldings to keep up uniformity , because they considered their own works better . Hence mediæval Gothic , with an ...
... Durham , remorselessly cutting through and mutilating the works of their predecessors , not even continuing their mouldings to keep up uniformity , because they considered their own works better . Hence mediæval Gothic , with an ...
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... Durham , to his boroughs of Gateshead and Sunderland , and by the Archbishop of York to Beverley . A still stronger proof that the laws of Newcastle really preceded the Leges Quatuor Burgorum exists in the fact , that on points where ...
... Durham , to his boroughs of Gateshead and Sunderland , and by the Archbishop of York to Beverley . A still stronger proof that the laws of Newcastle really preceded the Leges Quatuor Burgorum exists in the fact , that on points where ...
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... Durham , although separated from the body of the county by the entire length of Northumberland . Commencing at Berwick , the east marches followed the course of the Tweed as far as that river forms the boundary between England and ...
... Durham , although separated from the body of the county by the entire length of Northumberland . Commencing at Berwick , the east marches followed the course of the Tweed as far as that river forms the boundary between England and ...
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... Durham there is a curious description of the ancient Saxon city of Bamburgh , under the year 774 , in which the well is noticed : " Bebba vero civitas urbs est munitissima , non admodum magna , sed quasi duorum vel trium agrorum spatium ...
... Durham there is a curious description of the ancient Saxon city of Bamburgh , under the year 774 , in which the well is noticed : " Bebba vero civitas urbs est munitissima , non admodum magna , sed quasi duorum vel trium agrorum spatium ...
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... Durham , Aldune the bishop of the diocese died of grief on receiving the intelligence . The disaster was preceded by a comet , which appeared for thirty nights , and prepared men's minds for some great calamity . Carham became the ...
... Durham , Aldune the bishop of the diocese died of grief on receiving the intelligence . The disaster was preceded by a comet , which appeared for thirty nights , and prepared men's minds for some great calamity . Carham became the ...
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Page 161 - Ceteris servis non .in nostrum morem, discriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur: suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. frumenti modum dominus aut pecoris aut vestis ut colono iniungit, et servus hactenus paret : cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page 161 - Ceteris servis, non in nostrum morem descriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur. Suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris aut vestis, ut colono, injungit : et servus hactenus paret ; cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page lxxxiii - Engolismensis diocesis salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum a nobis petitur, quod iustum est et honestum tam vigor equitatis quam ordo exigit rationis, ut id per sollicitudinem officii nostri ad debitum perducatur effectum.
Page lxxxi - In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xiii die Decembris, anno regni nostri quarto.
Page 135 - This year went Siward the earl [of Northumbria] with a great army into Scotland, both with a ship force and with a land force, and fought against the Scots, and put to flight King Macbeth, and slew all who were the chief men in the land, and led thence much booty, such as no man before had obtained. But his son Osbarn, and his sister's son Siward, and some of his house-carles, and also of the king's, were there slain, on the day of the Seven Sleepers," (July 27.) Bishop Aldred, of Worcester, is sent...
Page 134 - ... with the other nobles. The king gave him besides many mansions on the road, that he and his successors might find entertainment in going and re* De Gestis Regum. turning ; and these houses continued to belong to the kings of Scotland until the time of Henry II.
Page 220 - ... of the fourteenth century may be divided more or less definitely into 41 groups separated by average intervals of 13^ years. In Kyoto a complete record has been kept for a thousand years. Here there was a strong maximum of destructive and strong earthquakes...
Page 296 - The earl concluded by entreating the king to order his council and treasurer to pay him and his son a large sum, conformably to the grant made in the last parliament, so that no injury might arise to the realm by repudiating what was due to them. It is clear that these just demands of the Percies received no consideration ; and it is not to be wondered at that, thus slighted, defrauded of their due, harassed by debts incurred for the king, and with their honour engaged for their fulfilment, goaded...
Page 156 - Counties palatine are so called a palatio; because the owners thereof (the earl of Chester, the bishop of Durham, and the duke of Lancaster,) had in those counties jura regalia, as fully as the king hath in his palace ; regalem potestatem in omnibus, as Bracton expresses it u.
Page lxxxiv - Benedicti, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum a nobis petitur quod justum est et honestum, tam vigor equitatis quam ordo exigit rationis ut id per sollicitudinem officii nostri ad debitum perducatur effectum...