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Page 123 - There was a great engine at the lower end of the room which had motion, and in it were the images of sea-horses with other terrible fishes, which were ridden by Moors. The indecorum was, that there was all fish and no water.
Page 61 - ... it lies for the production, inspection, or delivery of public books and papers; for the surrender of the regalia of a corporation; to oblige bodies corporate to affix their common seal; to compel the holding of a court ; and for an infinite number of other purposes, which it is impossible to recite minutely.
Page 325 - Misrule, morris-dancers formed an important part. The more ancient Maygame and morris consisted of the following characters : Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, the queen or lady of the May, the fool, the piper, and several dancers, variously habited.
Page 17 - Many parts of the charter were pointed against the abuses of the power of the king as lord paramount ; the tyrannical exercise of the provisions of the forest laws was checked, and many grievances incident to feudal tenures were mitigated or abolished.
Page 235 - mine " includes every shaft in the course of being sunk, and every level and inclined plane in the course of being driven for commencing or opening...
Page 69 - A manor, nanerium, a manendo, because the usual residence of the owner, seems to have been a district of ground, held by lords or great personages ; who kept in their own hands so much land as was necessary for the use of their families, which were called terrce dominicales, or demesne lands ; being occupied by the lord, or dominus manerii, and his servants.
Page 227 - Inquiry into certain vulgar Opinions concerning the Catholic Inhabitants and the Antiquities of Ireland.
Page 221 - When the diameter is five feet, the stone may make about 90 revolutions in a minute, without the flour becoming too much heated. The corn or grain is shaken out of a hopper by means of projections from the revolving axis, which give to its lower part or feeder, a vibrating motion. The lower stone is slightly convex, and the upper one somewhat more concave, so that the corn which enters at the middle of the stone, passes outward for a short distance, 'before it begins to be ground. After being reduced...
Page 215 - ... part of the rest of the year sufficient food cannot be obtained in that area. It will follow that those birds which do not leave the breeding area at the proper season will suffer, and ultimately become extinct ; which will also be the fate of those which do not leave the feeding area at the proper time.
Page 3 - Saturnalia, curious for its criticisms, and valuable for the light it throws upon the manners and customs of antiquity ; a commentary on Cicero's Somnium...