 | Whellan T. and co - 1857 - 798 pages
...observations be just, the statues must be coeval with the nave of the Abbey Church, which was built at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. The seven first named statues are now deposited in the Yorkshire Museum, and the two which had long... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1858 - 516 pages
...dialect of that age. In the same dialect is a rhymed version of the Psalms, which has been referred to the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. The following is the version of the hundredth psalm: " Mirthes to God al erthe that es, Serves to Loverd... | |
 | English essays - 1861 - 748 pages
...vases with charcoal found with the deceased, and the type of these vases, the interment must date from the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. The form of the sword does not contradict this attribution. The form is evidently of the middle age,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 626 pages
...conclusively, that the MS. which Spelman saw at Croyland could not in all probability have been older than the end of the .thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century, from a mistranscription of a word in his extract (Eustres for Euesqes), which was very likely to have... | |
 | James Jaffray - Warwickshire (England) - 1862 - 206 pages
...probably the same that was erected by the Templars for their chapel, as its date can hardly be later than the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. It had fallen into a very ruinous condition ; but soon after the Restoration was greatly repaired by... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1864 - 672 pages
...VOL. I. 2 P First, by whom the Culdees were dispossessed, though not without a strenuous resistance, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. In the time of Kenneth, (this is he who gave the great city of Brechin to the Lord,) a Culdee monastery... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 632 pages
...of England, or of any other part of Europe, and the Italian writer, who appears to have flourished at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century, might have transferred the French scenes of his story from France to Lombardy, and the Roman ones from... | |
 | John Yeats - Commerce - 1871 - 514 pages
...is applied by Dante to a machine which struck the hours, clocks may have been known in Italy about the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. It is said that the first made in England was furnished for the famous clockhouse near Westminster... | |
 | sir William Snow Harris - 1872 - 474 pages
...employment of the needle in navigation appears to have been first generally introduced into Europe towards the end of the thirteenth, or the beginning of the fourteenth century, and is attributed to a Neapolitan, a noble citizen of a town of Principato, which has ever since borne... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1881 - 548 pages
...the murder of Thomas a Becket. Mr. Walter de Gray Birch informs me that the seal dates probably from the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century. I do not think with Bro. Gould* that this is the seal used by the Lodge of St. Thomas at Arbroath,... | |
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A compilation from earlier historical works made, in the form in which we have it, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century and known by the name of WALTER OF COVENTRY (W. 
