Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1918 |
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Page 273 - Prince, and therefore strictly charged and commanded that he should not be esteemed or called a saint ; that all images and pictures of him should be destroyed, the festivals in his honour be abolished, and his name and remembrance be erased out of all books, under pain of his Majesty's indignation and imprisonment at his Grace's pleasure.
Page 16 - Roger,* my uncle, granted to him, and which he holds of me, to be held of me and my heirs to him and his heirs, in fee and...
Page 7 - He forsook his chrism and his rood, his ghostly weapons, and took to his spear and his sword, after his bishophood; and so went to the field against Griffin the Welsh king: and there was he slain, and his priests with him, and Elnoth the sheriff and many good men with them; and the others fled away.
Page 344 - A Catalogue of Books relating to the History and Topography of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. Compiled from his Library at Stourhead, in Wiltshire.
Page 339 - Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
Page 7 - Elnoth the sheriff, and many good men with them ; and the others fled away. This was eight days before Midsummer.
Page 199 - Jene Nachricht lautet nach der Abbildung bei Hickes: „Nemninus [? Hickes Catalog. p. 63: — „cum Alphabeto Nemnini Britannico seu potius Runico etc."] istas reperit literas uituperante quidam (sie) scolastico saxfnici generis quia brittones non haberent rudimentum at ipse subito ex machinatione mentis suae formavit eas ut uituperationem et hebitudinem demeret gentis suae •.• de figuris et de nominibu« — — —
Page 273 - ... worshipped image of the man whom that father-in-law had assassinated. Altogether the circumstances seem to me curiously illustrative of the feelings and manners of that time. In the devotional figures, St. Thomas is represented wearing the chasuble over the black Benedictine habit, and carrying the crosier and Gospels in his hand. When represented as martyr, he is without the mitre, and the blood trickles from a wound in his head, or he has a battle-axe or sword struck into his head. He is, in...
Page 356 - Second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c: and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty Eight.
Page 256 - Scythicos equites turn forte subacto celsus Aremorico Geticum rapiebat in agmen per terras, Arverne, tuas ; qui proxima quaeque discursu, flammis, ferro, feritate, rapinis delebant, pacis fallentes nomen inane.