The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. [bound in 12 pt. with suppl.].1840 |
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Page 141 - There he lashed himself to the post, shouting for half an hour for assistance — till the tide rose over his head ! In the darkness of the night, and amid the pauses of the hurricane, his voice, heard at intervals, was exquisitely mournful. No one could go to his assistance — no one knew where he was — the sound seemed to proceed from the spirit of the waters. But morning rose — the tide had ebbed — and the poor traveller was found lashed to the pole of the net, and bleaching in the wind.
Page 25 - ENGLAND AND WALES. BOROUGHS WHICH ARE NOT TO HAVE A COMMISSION OF THE PEACE UNLESS ON PETITION AND GRANT. SECTION 1.
Page 141 - I once in my early days heard (for it was night, and I could not see) a traveller drowning ; not in the Annan itself, but in the Frith of Solway, close by the mouth of that river. The influx of the tide had unhorsed him, in the night, as he was passing the sands from Cumberland. The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water three foot a-breast.
Page 118 - Under the new Municipal Act, the borough is included in schedule A, amongst boroughs to have a Commission of the Peace.
Page 141 - This plain is rather lower than the moss itself, being separated from it by a breast-work formed by digging peat, which makes an irregular, though perpendicular line, of low, black boundary. It was the bursting of the moss through this peat breast-work, over the plain between it and the Esk, that occasioned the dreadful inundation which destroyed so large a district.
Page 165 - Esq., Admiral of the Blue, Fell a Martyr to political Persecution. March 14, in the Year 1757 : When Bravery and Loyalty Were insufficient Securities For the Life and Honour of A Naval Officer.
Page 94 - Provost, Todbere, Melbury Abbas, Compton Abbas, Dowhead St. Mary, and St. Margaret's Marsh and the chapelry of Hartgrove. WAREHAM. — The old borough of Wareham ; the parishes of Corfe Castle and Bere Regis ; the several out-parishes of Lady Saint Mary, Holy Trinity...
Page 178 - The extent of the iron trade in all its varieties, wrought and unwrought, for agricultural and other internal purposes, and for home consumption and exportation, under its innumerable shapes and forms, is now so very great, as to rival even that of the great staple, wool, and to make the superiority of the latter somewhat questionable...
Page 69 - Castle is well chosen : the walls encircle an extensive area of an elliptical form, surrounded by a very broad and deep moat partly natural and partly artificial. The entrance into the first court was by a gateway, now in ruins, defended by a portcullis ; the outer walls were strengthened by several circular and square towers, all of which are dilapidated. In this court are several barns, &c., built out of the ruins, the estate being tenanted as a farm.
Page 49 - Though betwixt Cawoode and Rotheram be good plenti of wood, yet the people burne much yerth cole, bycawse hit is plentifully found ther, and sold good chepe. A mile from Rotheram be veri good pittes of cole.