Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

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Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1880
Annual report of the Society for 1855-57, 1860-1864, 1878, 1882-83, 1884, 1888-89, 1892-1902, 1904-1922 included in n. s. v. 1-3, 6-9, 11, 13, 16-25; ser. 3, v. 2-9, 11-20.
 

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Página 224 - Queen Mary, entitled, An act for exempting their majesties Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalty of certain laws...
Página 222 - Gateside ; where a meeting is continued to this day, in the name of Jesus. As I was passing by the market-place, the power of the Lord rose in me, " to warn them of the day of the Lord, that was coming upon them.
Página 70 - In that place of prayer very many miraculous cures are known to have been performed, as a token and memorial of the king's faith ; for even to this day, many are wont to cut off small chips from the wood of the holy cross, which being put into water, men or cattle drinking thereof, or sprinkled with that water, are immediately restored to health.
Página 118 - These iron times breed none that mind posterity. Tis but in vain to tell what we before have been, Or changes of the world that we in time have seen, When, not devising how to spend our wealth with waste, We to the savage swine let fall our larding mast : But now, alas ! ourselves we have not to sustain, Nor can our tops suffice to shield our roots from rain. Jove's oak, the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech, Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych, Tough holly and smooth birch,...
Página 108 - THE pious servant of Christ, Biscop, called Benedict, with the assistance of the Divine grace, built a monastery in honour of the most holy of the apostles, St. Peter, near the mouth of the river Were, on the north side. The venerable and devout king of that nation, Egfrid, contributed the land ; and Biscop, for the space of sixteen years, amid innumerable perils in journeying and in illness, ruled this monastery with the same piety which stirred him up to build it.
Página 248 - and therefore it is with much satisfaction that I am able to state that arrangements are " in course of completion for making advances on shipments to Toronto, Kingston, Mont" real, Quebec, or Portland, on depositing at the place of shipment the bills of lading with
Página 223 - December, next the computation of time established by the said act, should be observed and that accordingly the first Day of the eleventh month commonly called January next shall be Reckoned and deemed, by Friends, the first day of the first Month of the year 1752...
Página 4 - ... the higher Empire, which continued, with an admixture of the inferior coins of the lower Empire, to the bottom. He met with the head of a statue, represented at the end of this paper, and with other vases without inscriptions, and with brooches, rings, beads, dice, and other objects ; some of these, viz., three bronze heads, one of a female and two of males, apparently representing Mirth and Melancholy, an ivory stylus, with a female head carved at its top, three brooches, and a dice, are shown...
Página 109 - When the work was drawing to completion, he sent messengers to Gaul to fetch makers of glass, (more properly artificers,) who were at this time unknown in Britain, that they might glaze the windows of his church, with the cloisters and diningrooms.
Página 67 - Ael., viii. 69. Birtley. There the villagers of a generation ago frequented the well in the early hours of the New Year, like their neighbours at Wark ; but they held that the fortunate first visitant of the well on New Year's morning who should fill his flask or bottle with the water, would find that it retained its freshness and purity throughout the whole year, and also brought good luck to the house in which it remained.

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