Remains historical and literary connected with the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester published by the Chetham Society, 110. köide

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Page 196 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth.
Page 131 - A Portfolio of Fragments, relative to the History and Antiquities of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster.
Page 80 - II. Tracts relating to Military Proceedings in Lancashire during the Great Civil War. Edited and Illustrated from Contemporary Documents by GEORGE ORMEROD, DCL, FRS, FSA, FGS, author of
Page 79 - That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general...
Page 143 - ... John, who created Liverpool a free borough, merely granted burgage tenure to some of the inhabitants ; this is all that is specified. I apprehend, however, that the word/ree implies fixed dues, and that the burgages were of a minimum value. Twenty years later, Henry III. conceded a merchant guild, a hanse, and other liberties and free customs to that guild pertaining...
Page 178 - Of this Mabel is a story by tradition of undoubted verity that in Sir William Bradshage's absence (being ten yeares away in the wares) she married a Welch knight. Sir William retorninge from the wares came in a palmer's habit amongst the poore to Haghe. Who when she saw and congetringe that he favoured her former husband wept, for which the knight...
Page 118 - XXIX. The Stanley Papers, Part I. The Earls of Derby and the Verse Writers and Poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By THOMAS HEYWOOD, Esq., FSA pp. 64. XXX. Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham, and other Possessions in Lancashire of the Abbey of Evesham.
Page 203 - Jesus betwix my father & ye churche Wall w*in the parrisshe churche of bolton in the mores, and I giffe unto ye curet of bolton ten shillyngs for to praye ffor my ancesters saulles, my saulle and all Crysten saulles." He speaks of his two chief houses "Towreton and Wygan...
Page 178 - Bradshaighe, second son of Sir John, was a great traveller and a souldger and married to Mabell daughter and sole heire of Hugh Norris de Haghe and Blackrode and had issue in 8 Edward II.
Page 113 - Chamber." f 116 William Parker, eldest son and heir of Edward Parker, Lord Morley, and Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of William Stanley, Baron Monteagle, who had been summoned to Parliament in the lifetime of his father, in right of his mother, as BARON MONTEAGLE, and was summoned to the Upper House as Lord Morley and Monteagle, from January 30, 1621, to November 4 in the same year. This is the nobleman to whom the memorable anonymous letter was addressed, by which the Gunpowder Plot was fortunately...

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