The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial, and Miscellaneous History of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Otley, and the District Within Ten Miles of Leeds, Volumen1

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F. Hobson, 1834
 

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Página 64 - He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation : and as for his judgments, they have not known them.
Página 284 - Gamel had seven carucates of land to be taxed, where there may be five ploughs. Gerbodo now has of Ilbert, himself there three ploughs, and four villanes, and one bordar having four ploughs and a half. There is a Church and a Priest, and twenty-four acres of meadow. Value in King Edward's time four pounds, now thirty shillings.
Página 324 - Nayler be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, in the Palace- Yard, Westminster, during the space of two hours, on Thursday next, and be whipped by the hangman through the streets, from Westminster to the Old Exchange, London...
Página 324 - ... between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of...
Página 113 - Aldermen, and Assistants for the time being, or the greater part of them.
Página 47 - Tudors had obscured it, was restored to its ancient lustre. Happy had been the people, if their leaders, after having executed so noble a work, had contented themselves with the glory of being the benefactors of their country. Happy had been the king, if, obliged at last to submit, his submission had been sincere, and if he had become sufficiently sensible that the only resource he had left was the affection of his subjects. But Charles knew not how to survive the loss of a power he had conceived...
Página 407 - ... cemetery, next the church, in the walls of which are yet to be seen several large stone coffins ; the dormitory yet more south-east, with other cells and offices; all these are enough to furnish the contemplative soul with the most serious meditations. The abbey now is only a mere shell, with roofless walls, having yet a well-built, but uncovered steeple, the eastern parts embraced by its ivy, and all about the whole pile desolate, solitary, and forlorn.
Página 413 - There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Página 252 - Alward had one manor of three carucates, and two oxgangs and a half to be taxed, where there may now be three ploughs. Richard has it of the Earl. There is there one villane ploughing with two oxen, and there are two acres of meadow. Wood pasture two quarentens long and two broad.
Página 62 - ... the many grievances we laboured under, but by a free parliament ; that now was the only time to prefer a petition of the sort ; and that they could not imitate a better pattern than had been set before them by several lords spiritual and temporal.

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