 | Architecture - 1844 - 468 pages
...The chapels of the flamboyant pointed style, which border the chancel, appear to be an addition made about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The vaults, as well in the chancel as the naves, are pointed with groined mouldings. Flying buttresses... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 602 pages
..."Weidler' and Chambers4 are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatous clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The latter says, ' It is certain that the art of constructing clocks, such as those now in use, was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...said by Falle to have been a fertile valley, in which grew an actual forest of oaks, but was submerged about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century. He also mentions that the inhabitants had a traditional belief, that the irruption of the sea was a... | |
 | Maitland club, Glasgow - Scotland - 1858 - 282 pages
...old extent." Auchinharvy appears to have come into the possession of the Guninghams of Auchinharvy about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century ; but it seems unascertained whether they originated directly from the family of Glencairn, or indirectly... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 562 pages
...importations took place into the mother country about 1605.1 Sugar refining was first discovered by a Venetian about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. In Cromwell's time it was almost exclusively in the hands of the Dutch, and was first practised in... | |
 | Guillaume Libri - Auction catalogs - 1859 - 398 pages
...EN BlMX FRANÇOISE calf extra folio. S^EC. xv-xvi. ON VELLUM Beautifully written by a French Scribe, about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century, with a great number of illuminated initials. A former possessor has written on the fly leaves, that... | |
 | Sir James Young Simpson - 1862 - 52 pages
...Fulgosi9 asserts; 1 See also a collection by Griiner of the opinions of many authors, who wrote in the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century, as to the disease being new and unknown, — in his "Morborum Antiquitates," p. 69, seq. Aphrodisiacus,... | |
 | William Chaffers - Porcelain - 1863 - 278 pages
...call them poesies, and do paint them now-a-dayes upon the back sides of our fruit trenchers of wood."* About the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century vessels of pewter almost superseded the use of treen or wood for the ordinary use of the household.... | |
 | Alexander Jeffrey - Roxburghshire (Scotland) - 1864 - 496 pages
...the Elliots settled in Liddisdale has not been ascertained with any degree of certainty, but it must have been about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century. It is thought that the Elliots originally belonged to Kenfrewshire, and gave name to " Elliotston,"... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1868 - 538 pages
...importations took place into the mother country about 1605.1 Sugar refining was first discovered by a Venetian about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. In Cromwell's time it was almost exclusively in the hands of the Dutch, and was first practised in... | |
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Nicholson ; * but, in order to avoid the dangers which threatened him in the latter part of his life on a religious account, he assumed the sirname of Lambert. It does not appear when he was born, though it may be presumed to have been about the end of... 
