Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1924 |
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Abbey Anafon Anglesey appears Arch Beaumaris Beaumaris Castle Bishop Breos Breton Breviate Brittany Bronze Age building Bulkeley Camb Cantref Carmarthen Carmarthenshire Carnac Castle Catamanus cave celt centre century chancel charter church circle cist cloth cross curved Cwm Hir diameter dolmen Earl of Warwick early east enclosure entrance Evans evidence excavations Finistère flannel Friars Gower grant Gruffudd Hearth Henry Hereford inscription interest Ireland It'm paied John Jones King land later letters Llanfaes Llanfairfechan lord LXXIX majuscule manors megalithic menhirs mentioned minuscule Montgomeryshire monuments Morbihan Museum nave North Wales notes original parish Penmynydd pottery probably registers remains Rhys river road Roman round Rouzic Shrewsbury side square stroke Supraboscus Swansea Tally thick Thomas tion tomb tumulus uncial valley vertical wall weaver Welsh Welsh woollen William William de Breos woollen industry yards
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Page 365 - We brake down 1000 Pictures superstitious ; I brake down 200 ; 3 of God the Father, and 3 of Christ, and the Holy Lamb, and 3 of the Holy Ghost like a Dove with Wings ; and the 12 Apostles were carved in Wood, on the top of the Roof, which we gave order to take down ; and 20 Cherubims to be taken down ; and the Sun and Moon in the East Window, by the King's Arms, to be taken down.
Page 13 - From Chepstow to the half-way house between Newport and Cardiff they continue mere rocky lanes, full of hugeous stones as big as one's horse, and abominable holes. The first six miles from Newport they were so detestable, and without either direction-posts or milestones, that I could not well persuade myself I was on the turnpike, but had mistook the road, and therefore asked every one I met, who answered me, to my astonishment, 'Ydr-as!' Whatever business carries you into this country, avoid it,...
Page 13 - Pennant has greater variety of inquiry than almost any man, and has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done, in the time that he took. He has not said what he was to tell : so you cannot find fault with him for what he has not told. If a man comes to look for fishes, you cannot blame him if he does not attend to fowls.
Page 12 - tis a thick sort of flannel, of which the Soldiers' clothing is chiefly made ; it sells by the ell, which is two yards and a half and six inches, and they can draw this measure out to three yards ; the coarser was Is. 6d. an ell. but now it is all from 2s. to 4s. On the sixth I left Oswestre, and after travelling four miles came to Tana Manah(14), near which village there...
Page 144 - Friary of Llanfaes, and, alas ! used for many years as a horse watering trough, was rescued from such indignity and placed here for preservation, as well as to excite serious meditations on the transitory nature of all sublunary distinctions, by THOMAS JAMES WAERKN BULKELEY, VISCOUNT BULKELEY, October 1808.
Page 18 - ... per cent. ; who frequently purchase pieces before they are out of the loom. Ever since that period the face of the country has changed much for the better ; the seeds of opulence seem to have taken root in the land and the baneful effects of imposition and disappointment begin to disappear.
Page 209 - ... (Roberts Vaux, Notices, 21, quoted in Teeters, 1937, 24). This practice was abolished practically everywhere at the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century. The public exhibition of prisoners was maintained in France in 1831, despite violent criticism - 'a disgusting scene', said Real (cf.
Page 144 - Joan ; *fo shew mankind how idle is the aim To thirst for riches, or to strive for fame : To teach them, too, to watch life's fleeting day, Nor grasp at shadows which soon pass away ; For Nature tells us in Angelic breath There 's nothing certain in this world but death.
Page 226 - English readers is that it is one of the earliest books of secular tales and personal reminiscences that exists, and that it embodies very early recensions of the folk-stories of the European stock.
Page 509 - OF ANGLESEY The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF BUTE The Right Hon. the EARL OF PLYMOUTH The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF LLANDAFF The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF MONMOUTH The Right Hon. LORD ABERCONWAY The Right Hon. LORD ABERDARE (President, 1900) The Right Hon. LORD BOSTON The Right Hon. LORD HARLECH The Right Hon.