The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Band 7Thomas Maiden, 1808 - 524 Seiten |
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... Gravesend in a broad stream of about a mile over . Thence ra pidly increasing in width as it proceeds , it winds through the chan- nel called the Hope , and opening due east , passes the Isle of Graine , and flows into the German Ocean ...
... Gravesend in a broad stream of about a mile over . Thence ra pidly increasing in width as it proceeds , it winds through the chan- nel called the Hope , and opening due east , passes the Isle of Graine , and flows into the German Ocean ...
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... Gravesend , are now under the management of a Com- mission of Sewers . The Thames at Woolwich , at high - tide , is three quarters of a mile over , and the water salt . size ; but its progress has been more particularly rapid 526 KENT .
... Gravesend , are now under the management of a Com- mission of Sewers . The Thames at Woolwich , at high - tide , is three quarters of a mile over , and the water salt . size ; but its progress has been more particularly rapid 526 KENT .
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... Gravesend : and on a partition , High Street House was allotted to the youngest , married to Cuthbert Potts , Esq . an eminent Surgeon , of London . This gentleman became owner also , in right of his wife , of a contiguous Villa ...
... Gravesend : and on a partition , High Street House was allotted to the youngest , married to Cuthbert Potts , Esq . an eminent Surgeon , of London . This gentleman became owner also , in right of his wife , of a contiguous Villa ...
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... GRAVESEND , WRITTEN Graves - ham in the Domesday Book , and Graves- ande in the Textus Roffensis , is thought , by Lambard , to have derived its name from the Saxon word Gerefa , a Ruler , or Port- reve , and to signify the end or limit ...
... GRAVESEND , WRITTEN Graves - ham in the Domesday Book , and Graves- ande in the Textus Roffensis , is thought , by Lambard , to have derived its name from the Saxon word Gerefa , a Ruler , or Port- reve , and to signify the end or limit ...
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... Gravesend on the east side . At the period of the Domesday Survey , the Manor belonged to Odo , Bishop of Baieux ; but after his disgrace , it became the property of the Cramavilles , or Cremilles , who had many other manors in Kent ...
... Gravesend on the east side . At the period of the Domesday Survey , the Manor belonged to Odo , Bishop of Baieux ; but after his disgrace , it became the property of the Cramavilles , or Cremilles , who had many other manors in Kent ...
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Seite 367 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Seite 464 - Us, the point upwards : next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Seite 375 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Seite 371 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Seite 417 - I do hereby freely promise, and engage myself, to be true and faithful to the Lord Protector and the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland ; and shall not (according to the tenor of the Indenture whereby I am returned to serve in this present Parliament) propose, or give my consent, to alter the Government as it is settled in a Single Person and a Parliament.'* Sign that, or go home again to your countries.
Seite 413 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 465 - Latin, and the Languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch: Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling; now and then she raises some with her Hand.
Seite 407 - What if a Man should take upon him to be King?" WHITELOCKE, "I think that Remedy would be worse than the Disease.
Seite 464 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it till they marry ; and she had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately, her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Seite 420 - The heir, on the death of his ancestor, if of full age, was plundered of the first emoluments arising from his inheritance, by way of relief and primer seisin ; and, if under age, of the whole of his estate during infancy. And then, as Sir Thomas Smith...