Swindon fifty years ago, more or less: reminiscences, notes, and relics of ye old Wiltshire towneThe author, 1885 - 527 páginas |
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afterwards Aldbourne appears backsword bank Bell Bellarmines bull bull-baiting Bush called carried chalk chapel character Chiseldon cloth connection course Cricklade Devizes doubt duly England English erected fair father Father Christmas fifty years ago Fordingbridge front Gamesters gate ghost Goddard Arms Goddard family hand head heard horses hundred hunting seat inhabitants inscription interesting John Aubrey John of Gaunt King known labourers land Lodge London Lord Marlborough Messrs mill Mince Pie Mummers neighbourhood never Newport Street newspaper night Noad occasion old church old house paper particular persons play players poor preached present prisoners probably purpose recollect referred remarkable Richard Richard Strange rioters road Salisbury seen shillings stone Swindon thing Thomas Tokens town trade Troop Upper Upham Vicar village Wanborough whilst whole William Wilts wool Wootton Bassett Wroughton Yeomanry
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Página 32 - O'ershadowed by thy rough beard like a wood ; Or like a larger jug that some men call A Bettarmine, but we a Conscience: Whereon the lewder hand of pagan workman Over the proud ambitious head hath carved • An idol large, with beard episcopal, Making the vessel look like tyrant Eglon.
Página 309 - And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and said unto them : Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.
Página 145 - Christmas comes but once a year : And, when it comes, it brings good cheer ; % But, when it's gone, it's never the near.
Página 447 - Pounds over and above all Rents and Charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Página 384 - They now began playing the larger engine, which broke the windows, flooded the rooms, and spoiled the goods. We were withdrawn to a small upper room in the back part of the house, seeing no way to escape their violence.
Página 446 - An Act for the more effectual " preventing bribery and corruption " in the election of members to serve " in Parliament." An Act for the preventing of bribery and corruption in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Aylesbury in the county of Buckingham.
Página 58 - Such ridiculous work they make of their Reformation, and so zealous are they against all Mirth and Jollity, as they would pluck down the Sign of the Cat and Fiddle too, if it durst but play so loud as they might hear it...
Página 58 - I'm amused at the signs As I pass through the town, To see the odd mixture — A
Página 165 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Página 390 - The news of our danger was got thither before us, but we brought the welcome tidings of our own deliverance. Now we saw the hand of Providence in suffering them to turn out our horses, that is, to send them to us against we wanted them. Again, how plainly were we overruled to send our horses down the town, which blinded the rioters without our designing it, and drew off their engines and them, leaving us a free passage at the other end of the town! We joined in hearty praises to our Deliverer, singing...