Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 2; Volume 14Society, 1862 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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Page 110 - There she was, before me ; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound ; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an immortal soul might be awakened.
Page 106 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 168 - The High Court of Justice : comprising Memoirs of the Principal Persons who sat in Judgment on King Charles the First, and signed his Death-Warrant, together with those Accessaries, excepted by Parliament in the Bill of Indemnity.
Page 167 - True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of King Charles I. as it was read in the House of Commons, and attested under the hand of Phelps, Clerk to that infamous Court.
Page 150 - Therto he coude endite, and make a thing, Ther coude no wight pinche at his writing. And every statute coude he plaine by rote. He rode but homely in a medlee cote, Girt with a seint of silk, with barres smale ; Of his array tell I no lenger tale.
Page 98 - Reduced. man, been submerged under fresh water, and an aqueous deposit from 20 to 30 feet in thickness, a portion of which, at all events, must have subsided from tranquil water, has been formed upon it ; and this...
Page 64 - Bradshaw, in his winding-sheet, the fingers of his right hand and his nose perished, having wet the sheet through; the rest very perfect, insomuch, that I knew his face, when the hangman, after cutting his head off, held it up: of his toes, I had five or six in my hand, which the prentices had cut off.
Page 171 - Report of the Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1863 — 4.
Page 53 - Sir, we have heard what you did at the house in the morning, and before many hours all England will hear it: but, Sir, you are mistaken to think that the parliament is dissolved; for no power under heaven can dissolve them but themselves; therefore take you notice of that.
Page 148 - Costly his garb— his Flemish ruff Fell o'er his doublet, shaped of buff, With satin slash'd and lined; Tawny his boot, and gold his spur, His cloak was all of Poland fur, His hose with silver twined ; His Bilboa blade, by march-men felt, Hung in a broad and studded belt : Hence, in rude phrase, the Borderers still Call'd noble Howard, Belted Will.