Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Том 2

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Staffordshire Record Society, 1899
List of members in vol. ,5 (pt. 1) 7, 9-11, 13, 15-18; new ser. v. 1-12, vols. for 1910-19, 1921, 1923-
 

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Сторінка 207 - While she was living at Lissard, she was, on some sudden alarm, obliged to go at night to a garret at the top of the house for some gunpowder, •which was kept there in a barrel. She was followed upstairs by an ignorant servant girl, who carried a bit of candle without a candlestick between her fingers. When Lady Edgeworth had taken what gunpowder she wanted, had locked the door, and was halfway...
Сторінка 226 - ... for the entertainment of these distinguished foreigners. On. the 1 8th September, 1630: There came to Chester, being on a Saturday, the Duchess of Tremoyle in France, and mother-in-law to the lord Strange, and many other great estates ; and all the gentry of Cheshier, Flintshier, and Denbighshier, went to meet her at Hoole Heath, with the earl of Derby, being at least six hundred men; all the gentlemen of the...
Сторінка 207 - Edgeworth had taken what gunpowder she wanted, had locked the door, and was half way down stairs again, she observed, that the girl had not her candle, and asked what she had done with it ; the girl recollected and answered, that she had left it " stuck in the barrel of black salt.
Сторінка 242 - In the arguments of Chief Justice Bridgman, methinks I find that evisceràtio «Ш5(?, as the Roman orator calls it, an exact anatomy of the case, and dextrous piercing into the very bowels of it; and it was no small commendation of an eminent professor of our law, and one that afterwards was advanced to the highest office a person of that profession can be capable — That he always argued like a lawyer and a gentleman.
Сторінка 73 - Lynford late of the said earl and in the king's hands as above, to hold of the chief lords of the fee by the services of as many knights' fees and as many other rents and services as they were held by before 4 March, 1 Edward IV.
Сторінка 245 - Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, hath thought fit to admit of his resignation thereof, with all demonstration on his Majesty's part of his kindness and esteem of the said Lord Keeper's merit towards him; and his Majesty willing to gratify the uninterrupted good services of the Earl of Shaftesbury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, was pleased this day to give unto him the keeping of the said Great Seal, with the title of Lord Chancellor of England.
Сторінка 38 - Eva, rendering for it each year a rose at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist for all service, custom and demands pertaining to bishop Robert and his heirs...
Сторінка 108 - Berminghani's company, as travellers, with whom they soberly rode for awhile, but being come up to their confederate, forthwith set upon him for his purse, so that the villain, thus seemingly rob'd makes pursuit after them, and likewise after master Bermingham, as one of the pack; who being thereupon apprehended and prosecuted, apparently saw his danger. The business therefore now working according to Dudley's first design, there were others employed to master Bermingham with overture how he might...
Сторінка 39 - HOLD all the aforesaid acre of land, with all its appurtenances, to the aforesaid John...

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