A General History of Hampshire Or the County of Southampton Including the Isle of Wight: Southampton and Alresford, and the adjacent country. By T. C. WilksVirtue and Company Henry Sotheran and Company, 1861 - Hampshire (England) |
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Abbey Abbot acres afterwards alderman Alresford amongst ancient Avington bailiffs bailiffs of Southampton belonged Bishop of Winchester Bishopstoke Bittern borough brother burgesses Castle chapel charged charter Cheriton Chilcomb church Clausentum clerk Compton court customs daughter demesne died Duke Dummer Earl East Edward England English father Fitz Fleming gave Geoffrey George granted Hampshire Hampton heir held Henry III hides Hugh hundred Isle of Wight Itchen James king king's knights lands London Lord manor married Mary Mary's mayor meadow messuage mill monks Netley Netley Abbey Nicholas notice Old Alresford ordered Otterbourne parish parliament Peter Philpot ploughlands port Portsmouth Portswood received rectory rents Richard Robert Roger Roman Romsey Sheriff of Hants ship Sir John Sir Thomas South Stoneham Southampton Water stone Street tenants tenements thence Titchbourne tithes town of Southampton tuns Twyford Walter West wife wine worth writ yearly
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Page 53 - LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE ON parlera de sa gloire Sous le chaume bien longtemps ; L'humble toit, dans cinquante ans, Ne connaîtra plus d'autre histoire. Là viendront les villageois Dire alors à quelque vieille : Par des récits d'autrefois, Mère, abrégez notre veille. Bien, dit-on, qu'il nous ait nui, Le peuple encor le révère, Oui, le révère. Parlez-nous de lui, grand'mère, Parlez-nous de lui.
Page 140 - I must confess I did not expect to hear my new acquaintance value himself upon these qualifications; but finding him such a critic upon foreigners, I asked him if he had ever travelled ? He told me, he did not know what travelling was good for, but to teach a man to ride the great horse, to jabber French, and to talk against passive-obedience: To which he added, that he scarce ever knew a traveller in his life who had not forsook his principles, and lost his huntingseat.
Page 42 - Our royal master saw, with heedful eyes, The wants of his two universities : Troops he to Oxford sent, as knowing why That learned body wanted loyalty: But books to Cambridge gave, as, well discerning, That that right loyal body wanted learning.
Page 253 - ... lie heaving many a mile. At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial grace; And the tall Pinta, till the noon, had held her close in chase.
Page 47 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 42 - The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
Page 139 - To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods, And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest, And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast...
Page 83 - And when he was come to the place of suffering, he kissed the stake, and said: "Shall I disdain to suffer at this stake, seeing my Redeemer did not refuse to suffer a most vile death upon the cross for me?
Page 234 - ... celebrate thing for fischar men and sum merchaunts, stoode a quarter of a mile or thereabout above from New Hampton, by north-est, and stretched to the haven-syde. The plotte wherein it stoode berith now good corn and grasse, and is namyd S. Maryfeld, by the chirch of S. Mary standing hard by it. The old town of Hampton was brent in tyme of warre, spoyled and raysed by French pyrates. This was the cause that the inhabitants there translated themselves to a more commodious place, and began, with...
Page 12 - AN EXHORTATION, To be spoken to such Parishes where they use their Perambulation* in Rogation Week ; for the Oversight of the Bounds and Limits of their Town*.