The History and Antiquities of the Town of Lancaster: Compiled from Authentic SourcesT. Edmondson, 1852 - 380 Seiten |
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abbot acres aforesaid Agricola aldermen ancient Anglo-Saxon Antoninus appears appointed army assize bailiffs Baines Bernicia borough Brigantes Britain British Britons Cæsar Caledonians called capital burgesses carucates castle chamberlains chantry chaplain charter church of Lancaster commonalty thereof conquest county of Lancaster court crown Danes Deira earl Edward Edward III election England erected forfeit the sum fortress freeman garrison granted hath Henry Heysham History honour inhabitants inscription island John Julius Agricola king kingdom Lancashire Lancaster Castle land liberties lord Lune Manchester Mancunium Mariæ mayor Northumberland Northumbria Ordovices Overborough parish person Picts possession present Preston prince prior of LANCASTER reign remains Ribble Ribchester Richard Richmondshire river river Lune road Roger Roman Runic Saxon sayde Scotland Setantii shillings stations stone successors Tacitus Thomas throne tower town of Lancaster unto Venutius Vespasian voyde groundes wall Western Brigantes William yeres York
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Seite 368 - Armagnac, but had not credit to effect his purpose. The cardinal and his friends had cast their eye on Margaret of Anjou, daughter of Regnier, titular King of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem, descended from...
Seite 3 - ... disruption of the supposed planet may have taken place. If the history of the fall of meteoric stones would be considered as throwing any light on this question, it will follow that such an event must have taken place at a very distant period ; for the descent of such stones can be traced back to periods more than a thousand years before the commencement of the Christian era ; perhaps even to the days of Joshua, when a shower of stones destroyed the enemies of Israel,* which would lead us to...
Seite 171 - Anglo-Saxons in Britain. It was a law or custom amongst the northern nations, that only one of the male children should be selected to remain at home to inherit the government and property of his forefathers, the rest were exiled to the ocean^ in quest of a fortune to be derived from rapacity, or obtained by the sword- All men of royal descent, who assumed piracy as a profession, enjoyed the name of sea-kings.* Without a yard of territorial property, without any visible nation or even a single town,...
Seite 139 - I doubt not that the sovereign power is in your God, who has compelled so many noble persons to come before you in this suppliant manner. Be pleased therefore to accept of us, and of this chain.
Seite 358 - Lancaster, but how they were divided and diverted, walked and breathed to and fro, whilst the Earle fires Lancaster, recovered Preston, and rifled Blackburne, I have no minde to inquire, but doe sadly remember ; and cannot easily forget how these tydings affrighted our Commanders out of Lancaster Castle, and exposed the Castle so well appointed to the will of the enemy, had not the mighty God, by the assistance of a minister, doubled the spirit of the heartie, (though headlesse), souldiers to maintaine...
Seite 7 - Saxons, and although the names of the towns and villages are almost universally of Anglo-Saxon derivation, yet the hills, forests, rivers, &c. have generally retained their old Celtic names.
Seite 133 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians : between them we are exposed to two sorts of death ; we are either slain or drowned.
Seite 297 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Seite 194 - A crowd of ghastly monarcbs pass swiftly along the page of history as we gaze ; and scarcely was the sword of the assassin sheathed before it was drawn against its master, and he was carried to the sepulchre which he had just closed upon another. In this manner, during the last century and a half...
Seite 152 - Mercia* a branch of the Angles, penetrating into the heart of the island, founded a kingdom that extended over all the midland counties, from the Severn to the Humber, and that pressed on the borders of Wales. In this district, however, the population was not destroyed or expelled ; the Britons lived mixed up, in about equal numbers, with the Saxons. The Mercian Angles, who, at one period...