Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review, Volume 2

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Page 108 - TRUBNER'S CATALOGUE OF DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS OF THE PRINCIPAL LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS OF THE WORLD.
Page 324 - THE FIRST NOWELL THE first Nowell the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay. In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, On a cold winter's night that was so deep. Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Born is the King of Israel.
Page 41 - Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne. Taken from Original Sources. With nearly One Hundred Illustrations. New and cheaper Edition, crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s.
Page 219 - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Page 174 - When any of the bretheren or sisteren dies, the rest shall give a halfpenny each, to buy bread to be given to the poor, for the soul's sake of the dead.
Page 97 - On the dorsal region of the vertebral column of a new Dinosaur, indicating a new genus, Sphenospondylus, from the Wealden of Brook, in the Isle of Wight, preserved in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, by Prof.
Page 78 - with dirty hands " or " with blue nails," or " who hawked his wares in the streets," should become a member of the Gild ; and that craftsmen, before being admitted, must have forsworn their trade for a year and a day. The...
Page 254 - We have in them a scheme of mutual assurance, with all the appliances for carrying it out, combined with thorough comprehension of the true principles upon which such schemes are founded, and can alone be supported. For the Gild not only satisfies itself that the claim is honest, but repudiates payment of it whenever the claimant has shown himself to have been contributory by his negligence to the loss of which he affects to complain. And, lastly, the Gild, to secure the society against claims of...
Page 108 - ... Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World. Trubner & Co. 1882. 7. History of Aylesbury. Parts i. and ii. By Robert Gibbs. Bucks Advertiser Office, Aylesbury. June, 1882. 8. Furness, Past and Present. By J. Richardson, Esq. Barrow-inFurness. 1881. 9. Seals and Armorial Bearings of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. By WH St. J. Hope, BA Part i. Satchell & Co. 1882. 10. Bibliography of I. Walton's Complete Angler. By T. Satchell. Privately...
Page 42 - Cannana, near Shar, where numerous remains of the classical age are known to exist. It is stated that Sir C. Wilson has recently discovered some Hittite monuments of great importance. THE ancestors of the poet Longfellow were originally settled in Yorkshire. The local papers say that in a recent sale at Bradford there was an old chest from a farmhouse at Ilkley, which upon its centre panel bore the following inscription : — " Jon Longfellow and Mary Rogers was marryed ye tenth daye off April, Anno...

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