The Hastings Guide: Or, a Description of that Ancient Town and Port, and Its Environs; ... By an Inhabitant. ...James Barry, Hastings; and sold, 1797 - 130 pages |
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Page 98 - Be it remembered, that in the year of our Lord 1287, in the even of St Agath, the Virgin, was the town of Winchelfea drowned, and all the lands between Climefden and the vocher of Hithe.
Page 92 - Expell'd, and all the rancour of the blood. Come, my companions, ye who feel the charms Of Nature and the year ; come, let us stray Where chance or fancy leads our roving walk : Come, while the soft voluptuous breezes fan The fleecy Heavens, enwrap the limbs in balm, And shed a charming languor o'er the soul.
Page 38 - But the appearance of the duke obliged them to feek their fafety by flight; and darknefs faved them from any farther purfuit by the enemy. THUS was gained by William, duke of Normandy, the great and decifive victory of Haftings, after a battle which was fought from morning till...
Page 28 - ... and would be decided in a single action ; that never army had greater motives for exerting a vigorous courage, whether they considered the prize which would attend their victory, or the inevitable destruction which...
Page 119 - ... than a mile about. In this church the Conqueror offered up his sword and royal robe, which he wore on the day of his coronation. The monks kept these till...
Page 28 - That, on the contrary, if they remitted in the least their wonted prowess, an enraged enemy hung upon their rear, the sea met them in their retreat, and an ignominious death was the certain punishment of their imprudent cowardice...
Page 111 - French, in the reign of Richard II. and again, in that of Henry VI.
Page 39 - Englifh, though defeated, fliewed at leaft as much valour, as thofe by whom they were vanquifhed, but lefs expertnefs in the difcipline and art of war. Yet their worft defect feems to have been the want of a cavalry equal to that of the Normans.
Page 119 - ... hay-barn ; it was leaded, part of the lead yet remains, and the rest is tiled. As to the kitchen, it was so large as to contain five fire-places, and it was arched at top ; but the extent of the whole abbey...