History and topography of the city of York; and the North riding of Yorkshire, Volume 2 |
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Page 241 - and you shall do this service in remembrance that you did most cruelly slay me. And that you may the better call to God for repentance and find mercy, and do good works, the officer of Eskdaleside shall blow his horn, Out on you, Out on you, Out on you for the heinous crime of
Page 241 - with a knife of a penny price; and you Ralph de Piercie shall take one and twenty of each sort, to be cut in the same manner; and you Allatson shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as aforesaid ; to be taken on your backs and carried to the town of Whitby, and
Page 242 - Then Whitby's nuns exulting told, How to their house three barons bold Must menial service do; While horns blow out a note of shame, And monks cry ' Fye upon your name 1 In wrath, for loss of sylvan game, St. Hilda's priest ye slew.' This, on Ascension day, each year, While labouring on our harbour-pier, Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear.
Page 204 - repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiera
Page 232 - within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told how sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby's towers they sail, And sinking down, with flutterings faint, They do their homage to the saint.
Page 241 - as long as it is low water at that hour, you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another, and so yedder them that they stand three tides without removing by the force of the water. Each of you shall make them in several places,
Page 304 - My Lord Bishop, I here present you with the falchion wherewith the champion Conyers slew the worm, dragon, or fiery serpent, which destroyed man, woman, and child; in memory of which, the King then reigning, gave him the
Page 232 - produce only one instance more of the great veneration paid to Lady Hilda, which still prevails even in these our days (AD 1776), and that is, the constant opinion that she rendered, and still renders herself visible, on some occasions, in the Abbey of
Page 666 - They took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him.
Page 241 - shall hold your lands of the Abbot of Whitby and his successors, in this manner:— that upon Ascension eve, you, or some for you, shall come to the wood of the