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Page 281
... Saxon version of Rede hath it , and signifies in our modern dialect the city of Loid in the Wood . And I believe it will be allowed me by any who impartially con- sidereth the circumstances of the actions wherein the place is mentioned ...
... Saxon version of Rede hath it , and signifies in our modern dialect the city of Loid in the Wood . And I believe it will be allowed me by any who impartially con- sidereth the circumstances of the actions wherein the place is mentioned ...
Page 287
... Saxon churches have been , with a few exceptions , and under some very particular circumstances , vain . The church of Leeds , whatever may have been its antiquity , does not appear to have been one of those first foundations whose ...
... Saxon churches have been , with a few exceptions , and under some very particular circumstances , vain . The church of Leeds , whatever may have been its antiquity , does not appear to have been one of those first foundations whose ...
Page 290
... Saxon parish of Dewsbury is Halifax , a tract of nearly seventeen miles in length , which ter- minates the vale of East Calder . This is a singularly compounded name , half Saxon and half Norman ; which not having been un- derstood ...
... Saxon parish of Dewsbury is Halifax , a tract of nearly seventeen miles in length , which ter- minates the vale of East Calder . This is a singularly compounded name , half Saxon and half Norman ; which not having been un- derstood ...
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