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Página 47 - The hospitality of the city was widely renowned, and especially the collations with which the sugar refiners regaled their visitors. The repast was dressed in the furnace, and was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk.
Página 42 - ... this was the case. My objective point was now Khisfin, a village lying five miles distant in a north-easterly direction, which has played so important a part in the history of the country that I was extremely anxious to investigate the ruins which exist there, and which have never been the subject of examination. After riding for an hour we came to the ruins of Nab, situated on a small mound. They consist of blocks of basalt...
Página 49 - A privateer is a ship-of-war fitted out at the owner's expense, and carrying " letters of marque," which authorise it to engage with any vessel of the enemy, to make prizes, and carry home booty. The most famous of the early privateering expeditions was that of the "Duke" and "Dutchess" fitted out by sixteen Bristol merchants, and commanded by Captain Woodes Rogers. Leaving Kingroad, the great roadstead at the mouth of the Avon, on August 8, 1708, they sailed for Brazil, rounded Cape Horn, found...
Página 83 - ... These it is the business of the antiquarian, as distinct from the historian, to study and interpret. The results of such investigations have led to the dividing of the life of man on our island into three periods, based upon the material used for the manufacture of weapons and domestic implements : (1) The Stone Age ; (2) The Bronze Age ; (3) The Iron Age ; but it must be remembered that these terms are independent of dates, that the periods overlapped, and...
Página 41 - Tidenham and Woolaston, is that of " potchers," or more correctly " putchers. " A long stand of baskets is erected below high-water mark tier over tier ; the baskets are long and cone-shaped, and open at the base of the cone. This open end faces the incoming tide, and the fish swimming up the river enter Salmon "Putchers" at Low Water, Beachley these baskets, and being unable to turn round owing to the narrow dimensions of the potcher are left high and dry by the receding waters. It need hardly be...
Página 50 - Inez" — carried treasure only inferior in value to the celebrated Manila galleon "NS de Covadonga" captured by Commodore Anson. But the War of the Austrian Succession (1743-48) and the Seven Years' War (1756-63) were the great times for Bristol privateering.
Página 147 - ... on the opposite side of the valley to Stroud. Rodborough Fort is a modern building on the extremity of the spur, and conspicuous from the other side of the Severn. Ruardean (1273), a village at the top of a hill with a tall church tower looking across the Wye into Herefordshire. St Briavels (1128), loftily situated on the summit of the steep bank of the Wye opposite Trelleck. The castle, which is still inhabited, was the residence of the Constable of the Forest. The interesting cruciform church...
Página 150 - I parish church, which before the Dissolution was the church of the great Benedictine monastery of St Mary. The nave with its imposing Norman arcade may be compared with that of Gloucester. The central tower is also Norman; the choir is early fourteenth century. The church is remarkable for its many beautiful monuments dating from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Tewkesbury is one of the five Gloucestershire boroughs, (pp. 8, 18, 20, 30, 77 — 79, 88, 95 — 97, 100, 122, 124, .25.) Thornbury...
Página 30 - ... Limestone, forming the magnificent cliffs near Symond's Yat and between Tintern and Chepstow. This again dips under the Millstone Grit, which caps Tidenham Chace ; and that again is overlaid within the Forest area by the coal measures, or rocks which contain the coal beds. In this case the whole series rise again and crop out along the eastern face of the Forest hills over the Old Red and are cut out by the Severn valley. The limestone however continues southward to Tidenham and then turns eastward...
Página 18 - ... short distance here divides Gloucestershire from Berkshire, takes its final leave of our county. The Windrush, the longest of all these rivers, rises two miles above Temple Guiting, leaves the county at Great Barrington, and passing Burford and Witney flows into the Thames a few miles below Shiftbrd. The Windrush above Bourton The Warwickshire Avon, to come to the rivers flowing into the Severn, has not much to do with Gloucestershire. For five miles below Stratford-on-Avon, and again for four...