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... sent an army into the north , which laid seige to the castle of Durham , and soon reduced it , confiscating the manor , and obliging the bishop to fly into Normandy . The troubles in the state being put an end to , the king , well ...
... sent an army into the north , which laid seige to the castle of Durham , and soon reduced it , confiscating the manor , and obliging the bishop to fly into Normandy . The troubles in the state being put an end to , the king , well ...
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... sent ambassadors to the English court , demanding the surrender of Northumberland , which Stephen per- emptorily refused ; on which hostilities immediately commenced . So soon again was this unhappy country exposed to the miseries of ...
... sent ambassadors to the English court , demanding the surrender of Northumberland , which Stephen per- emptorily refused ; on which hostilities immediately commenced . So soon again was this unhappy country exposed to the miseries of ...
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... sent their horses to a distance , resolving to fight on foot , and conquer or lose their lives . " § Thurstan , archbishop of York , was prevented by illness from accompanying the army further than Thirsk ; he therefore commissioned ...
... sent their horses to a distance , resolving to fight on foot , and conquer or lose their lives . " § Thurstan , archbishop of York , was prevented by illness from accompanying the army further than Thirsk ; he therefore commissioned ...
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... sent to consult the king's ( Richard I. ) pleasure touching the person they should nominate , when * History of Thirsk , pp . 22-27 . + Benedict . Petroburgh . ed . Hearne , p . 84 . § Gualter de Ferlington custus Dunelmen castri ...
... sent to consult the king's ( Richard I. ) pleasure touching the person they should nominate , when * History of Thirsk , pp . 22-27 . + Benedict . Petroburgh . ed . Hearne , p . 84 . § Gualter de Ferlington custus Dunelmen castri ...
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... sent . Another writ was issued ( 19th June , ) in which the arrayers were not only accused of negligence and disobedience , but their omission was imputed to peculation , and other causes of a still baser nature ; and they were ...
... sent . Another writ was issued ( 19th June , ) in which the arrayers were not only accused of negligence and disobedience , but their omission was imputed to peculation , and other causes of a still baser nature ; and they were ...
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Page 365 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 111 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 41 - ... to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which it meant to stretch its web.
Page 330 - I be taken as a robber and a felon of our Lord the King: and that at such a place I will diligently seek for passage, and that I will tarry there but one flood and ebb, if I can have passage ; and unless I can have it in such a place, I will go every day into the sea up to my knees, assaying to pass over : and unless I can do this within forty days, I will put myself again into the church as a robber and a felon of our Lord the King, so God me help and his holy judgment.
Page 123 - All things are here of him ; from the black pines, Which are his shade on high, and the loud roar Of torrents, where he listeneth, to the vines Which slope his green path downward to the shore, Where the bow'd waters meet him, and adore, Kissing his feet with murmurs ; and the wood, The covert of old trees, with trunks all hoar, But light leaves, young as joy, stands where it stood, Offering to him, and his, a populous solitude.
Page 118 - The Bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, Sir, but you should. You are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, 'Well, my lord, what say you ? ' ' Sir/ replied the Bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases." The King answered, ' No put-offs, my lord ; answer me presently.
Page 332 - The mountebank now treads the stage, and sells His pills, his balsams, and his ague-spells; Now o'er and o'er the nimble tumbler springs, And on the rope the venturous maiden swings; Jack Pudding, in his party-coloured jacket, Tosses the glove, and jokes at every packet.
Page 250 - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.
Page 46 - You will now return home, and take your prisoner, the King of Scotland, and convey him to my wife ; and by way of remuneration, I assign lands as near your house as you can choose them, to the amount of five hundred pounds a year, for you and your heirs.
Page 346 - ... merriment ; And though the day is known before, Yet frequently there is great store Of these forgetfuls to be found, Who're sent to dance Moll Dixon's round ; And having tried each shop and stall, And disappointed at them all, At last some...