Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1922

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Page 86 - Ecclesia sub tuo felici regimine regetur utiliter ac prospere dirigetur ac grata in eisdem spiritualibus et temporalibus suscipiet incrementa Jugum igitur Domini tuis impositum humeris prompta devotione suscipiens curam et administrationem...
Page 85 - ... ecclesie celerem et felicem de qua nullus preter nos hac vice se intromittere potuit sive potest reservacione et decreto obsistentibus supradictis ne ecclesia1 ipsa longe vacacionis exponeretur incommodis paternis et solicitis studiis intendentes, post deliberacionem quam de preficiendo eidem ecclesie personam utilem et eciam fructuosam cum fratribus nostris habuimus diligentem, demum ad te...
Page 158 - Oaths, and that he is well affected to His Majesty King George and His Government, and to the Church of England as by Law Established...
Page 238 - With Salop's various scenes; and that soft tract Of Cambria, deep-embay'd Dimetian land, By green hills fenc'd, by ocean's murmur lull'd...
Page 85 - ... fide digna testimonia perhibentur, direximus oculos nostre mentis, quibus omnibus debita meditacione pensatis de persona tua nobis et eisdem fratribus nostris ob dictorum tuorum exigenciam meritorum acceptam.
Page 56 - The district in which men measured by carucates, and counted by twelves and sixes, was not the district which the Danes conquered, but the district which the Danes settled, the district of
Page 86 - ... ecclesie tibi in spiritualibus et temporalibus plenarie committendo, in illo qui dat gratias et largitur premia confidentes, quod prci.it;!
Page 228 - Worthies, speaks of it as a coarse kind of cloth, made in Wales, "than which none warmer to be worn in winter, and the finest sort thereof very fashionable and gentele. Prince Henry (son of James I.) has a frieze suit.
Page 494 - According to the legend, a traveller whose horse had cast a shoe on the adjacent Ridgeway had only to leave a groat on the capstone, and return to find his horse shod and the money no longer there. But the invisible' smith may have been in possession centuries before the Saxons recognized him as Wayland, and the ancient Britons of Caesar's time may have been in the habit of offering money here either in return for farrier's work or merely as a votive offering to the local god or hero. In Sicily...
Page 155 - It cannot be too often repeated that inquiries into the origin of local names are, in the first place, historical, and only in the second place, philological. To attempt an explanation of any name, without having first traced it back to the earliest form in which we can find it, is to set at defiance the plainest rules of the science of language as well as of the science of history. Even if the interpretation of a local name * Isaac Taylor, Words and Places,

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