The Archaeological Journal, Volumen37Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1880 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abbey altar ancient Antiquities appears arch Archæological armet armour arms Baron de Cosson bassinet Binchester Bishop Burges burgonet camail Carhampton chancel Clare daughter described died Dunster Castle Muniments Dunster Church Earl of Gloucester East Quantockshead edge Edward Edward III effigy Elizabeth England engraved estates feet fifteenth century Glamorgan hauberk head piece heir helm helmet Henry Henry III holes Hübner inches inscription Irnham Joan Johanne John de Mohun John Luttrell Journal king king's knight Lady lands letters Lord manor married Minehead monument Museum original ornament parish church Patent Roll Pipe Roll plate preposito probably Reginald de Mohun reign remains restoration Richard rings rivets Roger d'Amory Roman sallad Scotland seal seems seyd side Sir Hugh Luttrell Sir John Somerset stone Tarragona Thomas tower visor vitrified vitrified forts wall whilst wife William de Mohun XXXVII Yarm
Pasajes populares
Página 69 - This was my dream and vision.' The confessor, after administering motives of consolation, returned to his own chamber, and during a short slumber, dreamed that he was present in the aforesaid Cistercian Monastery and beheld a venerable person attired in white, conducting a boy more radiant than the sun and vested in a robe brighter than crystal, from the baptismal font towards the altar. On enquiry whose beautiful child this was, the person answered 'this is the soul of the venerable Reginald de...
Página 388 - The Governor returned the following brave refusal : " If you doe what you threaten, you doe the most barbarous and villanous act [that] was ever done. My Mother I honour, but the cause I fight for, and the masters I serve, are God and the King.
Página 229 - ... difficult matter for one who is acquainted with the nature of the country where these structures abound, to give a very probable account of the manner in which this art has been originally discovered, and of the causes that have occasioned the knowledge of it to be lost, even in the countries where it was universally practised.
Página 229 - Through all the Northern parts of Scotland, a particular kind of earthy iron ore, of a very vitrescible nature, much abounds. This ore might have been accidentally mixed with some stones at a place where a great fire was kindled, and, being fused by the heat, would cement the stones into one solid mass, and give the first hint of the uses to which it might be applied.
Página 141 - Museum, in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy at Dublin, in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland at Edinburgh, and...
Página 412 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 230 - Scotland ; and as the whole country was anciently a forest, and the greater part of it overgrown with wood, it is easy to understand how those who erected these works, got the materials necessary for their purposes. — I am, SIR, your obedient humble servant. (Signed) "JOSEPH BLACK. " Edinburgh, April 18, 1877.
Página 69 - Monks,1 and when on the point of leaving it, a venerable personage, habited like a pilgrim presented himself and accosted me thus : ' Reginald, I leave it to your option either to come to me now in safety and without hazard, or to await until the week next before Easter exposed to danger.
Página 38 - Gwent and Morgannwg, within the hill district, and not above six miles from Cardiff. This lay in the route by which the Welsh invaders usually advanced upon and retired from Gwent, and to close it would close the whole line of the Rhymny, from the Brecon mountains to the sea, Cardiff blocking the seaward plain, and Brecknock and Builth, the valley of the Usk, north of the mountains. The proposed castle was wholly new. A knoll of ground rising out of the morass was scarped and revetted and crowned...
Página 441 - VI. — 1603, &c. CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC SERIES, OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I., preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Edited by WILLIAM DOUGLAS HAMILTON, Esq., FSA Vol..