A Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick ...The Author, 1822 - 334 Seiten |
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abbey Alnwick Abbey Alnwick Castle ancient annual appointed arms army bailiff Bamburgh barons barony of Alnwick battle beautiful Berwick Bondgate Street borough brother Burgesses of Alnwick called chamberlains chapel charter church court daughter Denwick died Douglas Duchess of Northumberland Duke of Northumberland Durham Earl of Northumberland east Edward Edward III England English erected estates father feet freemen gate grace the Duke grant heir Henry Hotspur Henry III Henry Lord Percy Henry Percy honour horses Hotspur Hulne inches issue John king of Scotland king's kingdom knights Lady land Lord Percy Lord Vesey Malton manor marches married ment Newcastle noble north side Northum parish parliament persons Pottergate Pottergate Street prisoner queen Richard Robert Scots Scottish slain south side stone Thomas tower town of Alnwick towre Tughall umberland wall Ward Warkworth wife William de Percy William de Vesey yeardes Yorkshire
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Seite 146 - Brancepeth, where the country came in to them, and pressed them to take up arms in their own defence. They accordingly set up their standards, declaring their intent was to restore the ancient Religion, to get the succession of the crown firmly settled, and to prevent the destruction of the ancient nobility, &c. Their common banner...
Seite 84 - Percy called for song and harp, And pipes of martial sound. The minstrels of thy noble house, All clad in robes of blue, With silver crescents on their arms, Attend in order due. The great...
Seite 147 - Wetherbye, where they mustered their men. Their intention was to have proceeded on to York ; but altering their minds, they fell upon Barnard's castle, which Sir George Bowes held out against them for eleven days.
Seite 16 - From their edges being much battered and broken, they were supposed to have been employed by the ancient Britons as chisels for cutting stone, and that they put a wooden shaft in the hollow end of them, and so drove them with a mallet. The shaft, when not employed, might be drawn out of the chisel, and by running a string through the ring on their sides, several of them might be tied together, and conveniently carried by the workman at his girdle, or otherwise, and one shaft serve them all. A little...
Seite 85 - William shipped his powers, And gained a fair young Saxon bride With all her lands and towers. Then journeying to the Holy Land, There bravely fought and died : But first the silver crescent wan, Some Paynim Soldan's pride.
Seite 46 - ... imagined, and is presented at once with the great body of the inner castle, surrounded with fair semicircular towers, finely swelling to the eye, and gaily adorned with pinnacles, figures, battlements, &c.* , The impression is still further strengthened by the successive entrance into the second and third courts, through great massy towers, till the stranger is landed in the inner court, in the very centre of this great citadel. Here he enters a most beautiful stair-case, of a very singular yet...
Seite 165 - She inherited all their great and noble qualities, with every amiable and benevolent virtue. By her marriage with Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, she had issue, Hugh Earl Percy, Lady F. Eliz. Percy, who died in 1761, and Lord Algernon Percy.
Seite 138 - My lord and lady have set on their table, for breakfast at seven o'clock in the morning, a quart of beer; as much wine ; two pieces of salt fish, six red herrings, four white ones, or a dish of sprats.
Seite 307 - ... of the town, where they deliver their swords. They then proceed under the guidance of the moorgrieves through a part of their extensive domain, till they reach the ceremonial well. The sons of the oldest freemen have the honour of taking the first leap. On the signal being given they pass through the bog, each being allowed to use the method and pace...
Seite 308 - ... first on the hill, where the names of the freemen of Alnwick are called over. When arrived about two miles from the town they generally arrange themselves in order, and, to prove their equestrian abilities, set off with great speed and spirit over bogs, ditches, rocks, and rugged declivities till they arrive at Rottenrow Tower on the confines of the town, the foremost claiming the honour of what is termed " winning the boundaries," and of being entitled to the temporary triumphs of the day.