Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1875 - Electronic journals |
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ancient Anglesey appears Arch Archæologia Cambrensis Archæological argent Bishop Bleddyn Bryn Bryn Eglwys Cadwgan called Camb Carmarthen Carnarvon Castle celt Celtic century chapel Chester church Coed y Llai Cors y Gedol cromlech Curig Cynwrig daughter and heiress David Davies Denbigh ditch Dyke Earl east Edward Einion Evans Eyton feet Fychan Goch Goronwy ground Gruffydd gules Gwysanau Harlech Harlech Castle haue Henry High Sheriff Howel Ieuan inches inscription Iorwerth Irish Ithel John Wynn Jones King Leeswood letter Lewis Llai Llangurig Llewelyn Lloyd Llwyn Lord Madog Maelor Maelor Gymraeg Margaret married Merionethshire miles mound Nercwys Offa's Dyke Oswestry Owain parish Pembrokeshire Pen Rhys Plas present Prince probably rampart remains Richard Robert Roman Ruthin sable side Sir John Owen stone Tegeingl Thomas tion tower Trevor tumulus Vaughan wall Welsh William Wrexham
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Page 138 - And they who, to be sure of Paradise, Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Page 172 - If fall I must in the Field, raise high my Grave, Vinvela. Grey Stones, and heaped-up Earth, shall mark me to future Times. When the Hunter shall sit by the Mound, and produce his Food at Noon, "Some Warrior rests here," he will say; and my Fame shall live in his Praise.
Page 297 - ON THE CLASS OF RUDE STONE MONUMENTS WHICH ARE COMMONLY CALLED IN ENGLAND CROMLECHS AND IN FRANCE DOLMENS, AND ARE HERE SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN THE SEPULCHRAL CHAMBERS OF ONCE EXISTING MOUNDS. PREVAILING ERRORS on THE SUBJECT REFUTED BY A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE MONUMENTS REFERRED TO BY THE MAINTAINERS OF THESE ERRORS.
Page 176 - And in their courses make that round, In meadows and in marshes found, Of them so called the Fairy ground...
Page 25 - Herbert answered he had not yet done the best he cou'd for him, and therefore most humbly desired his Highness to do one of two things, either to put him again in the castle where he was, and command some...
Page 212 - I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.
Page 24 - Herbert beseiged a principal person of them at Harlech castle in Merionethshire : the captain of this place had been a soldier in the wars of France, whereupon he said he had kept a castle in France so long, that he made the old women in Wales talk of him ; and that he wou'd keep the castle so long that he wou'd make the old women in France talk of him...
Page 267 - Upon October 7, 1642, the King having come over from Shrewsbury to Wrexham, to meet a commission from the city of Chester, and intending to return the same day, appears to have taken up his quarters at Sir Richard Lloyd's...
Page 263 - ... he bore them. He afterwards made himself master of the Castle, and destroyed it, carrying away a rich booty which he found deposited there. But when the friars petitioned to him for their books and chalices, which they had lodged in the castle, he replied, why did you put your goods in the castle? If you had kept them in your convent, they would have been secure.
Page 205 - God shall enable vs bee ready to remember to the advantage of every one whom« wee shall find hearty and zealous in the promoting of this our service, And for so doing this this shall bee y'r warrant. Given at our Court at Woodstock the 29th day of October. 1642. To our trusty and welbeloved our Com'issioners of Array and high Sheriff of our County of Anglesey...