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Page 336 - It is with the landing of Hengest and his war-band at Ebbsfleet on the shores of the Isle of Thanet that English history begins. No spot in Britain can be so sacred to Englishmen as that which first felt the tread of English feet.
Page 137 - The fate of the prisoners is not related ; it seems they perished with the rest. The ship was scuttled ; and Cobham made off with booty, which the English themselves admitted to be worth 50,000 ducats, to his pirate's nest in the south of Ireland. Eighteen drowned bodies, with the mainsail for their ' For graves delitos dignos de punicion y castigo.
Page 137 - ... himself and the survivors of the crew in their own sails and flung them overboard. The fate of the prisoners is not related; it seems they perished with the rest. The ship was scuttled; and Cobham made off with booty, which the English themselves admitted to be worth 50,000 ducats, to his pirate's nest in the south of Ireland. Eighteen drowned bodies, with the mainsail for their winding-sheet, were washed up upon the Spanish shores —' cruelty without example, of which but to hear was enough...
Page 334 - Thanet, a Roman interment in a leaden coffin was met with. The result of the discoveries which have been made in the researches among the Saxon cemeteries has been to render it more and more probable that the Saxons were gradually gaining a footing in the island before the period at which the grand invasions are said to have commenced.
Page 137 - His relations, De Silva said, strained their influence to prevent it from being carried into effect ; and it seems that either they succeeded or that Cobham himself yielded to the terror, and consented to answer...
Page xiv - The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Council, consisting of the President, two or more Vice-Presidents, Honorary Treasurer, Secretary, and not more than twenty-one elected Members of the Society.
Page 342 - Kent. up at a creeke a myle and more toward a place cawled Sarre, which was the commune fery when Thanet was fulle iled.
Page 136 - ... insist that such ignorance in one who sets up for an English historian is, to say the least, very remarkable. Here is the case. During the reign of Elizabeth, one Thomas Cobham, like unto many other good English Protestants, was, Mr. Froude informs us, " roving the seas, half pirate, half knight-errant of the Reformation, doing battle on his own account with the enemies of the truth, wherever the service of God was likely to be repaid with plunder.
Page 123 - ... if she attempted any more executions, he and his friends would interfere; the hideous scenes had lasted too long, and, as an earnest of a return to mercy, he demanded the pardon of the six gentlemen. Mary, as she lamented afterwards to Renard, was unprepared ; she was pressed in terms which showed that those who made the request did not intend to be refused — and she...
Page 74 - ... when I first went to Lambeth, my coach, horses, and men sunk to the bottom of the Thames in the ferry-boat, which was overladen ; but I praise God for it, I lost neither man nor horse.