Miscellaneous papers.-v.2.Feudal and military antiquities of Northumberland and the Scottish borders, by C.H.HartshorneBell and Daldy, 1858 - Northumberland (England) |
Common terms and phrases
afterwards aisle altar ancient antiquaries antiquities appears archæological arches Bede Bishop Bishop of Durham bolls boundary BREMENIUM bridge Brinkburn BRINKBURN PRIORY Britain bronze building burgesses called camp Castle cathedral century chaldron charter church coal coal trade cohort Colliery cross Cumberland Cuthbert district ditch Durham early east Ebchester employed engine erected existence feet Gateshead granted ground Henry Hexham hill Hoastmen Hugh Pudsey Imposiçon iron Jarrow keels King Lanchester land limes London masonry ment mentioned mines monastery monks mound nave Newcastle Norman Northum Northumberland notice occurs palisade period Pipe Rolls port portion posiçon present probably railways reign remains remarkable Richard of Hexham river river Tyne road Roman Sadberge Saxon Scotland ships side square station stone Street Sunderland Surtees Symeon Tees tion tons tower town trace transept Tyne Tynemouth vallum Varduli wall Watling Street Wearmouth William wood Wurtemburg
Popular passages
Page ix - Etruria is written on the mighty walls of her cities, and on other architectural monuments, on her roads, her sewers, her tunnels, but above all in her sepulchres ; it is to be read on graven rocks, and on the painted walls of tombs ; but its chief chronicles are inscribed on sarcophagi and cinerary urns, on vases and goblets, on mirrors and other articles in bronze, and a thousand et cetera of personal adornment, and of domestic and warlike furniture — all found within the tombs of a people long...
Page 170 - If it would be made Apparent, that as we have it noised Abroad, there is this and that Invention found out to draw out all great old Waists, or Drowned Collieries, of what depth soever; I dare assure such Artists, may have such Encouragement as would keep them their Coach and Six, for we cannot do it by our Engines...
Page 84 - Rede ist : sola, quae de hostibus capta sunt, limitaneis ducibus et militibus donavit, ita ut eorum essent, si heredes eorum militarent, nec umquam ad privatos pertinerent, dicens attentius eos militaturos, si etiam sua rura defenderent.
Page vii - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 10 - It was a safe bulwark, having the Picts wall on the north side, and the river of Tine on the south. This place of Pandon is of such antiquity, that, if a man would express any ancient thing, it is a common proverb *, As aid as Pandon.
Page 64 - The shrine is made entirely of black oak, and it may be doubted whether it has contracted that colour of blackness from old age, from some device, or from nature. The whole of it is externally carved with very admirable engraving, of such minute and most delicate work that the beholder, instead of admiring the skill or prowess of the carver, is lost in amazement.
Page 18 - On the Trade of Newcastle previous to the reign of Henry III. with a view of its relative importance as compared with other towns, and the general commerce of the kingdom.
Page 191 - Edward, it was presented on oath that the Prior of Tynemouth had raised a town on the bank of the water of Tyne at Sheles on the one side of the water, and that the Prior of Durham had raised another on the other side of the water, where no town ought to be, but only huts for sheltering fishermen ; and that fishermen sold fish there which ought to be sold at Newcastle, to the great injury of the whole borough, and in detriment of the tolls of Our Lord the King...
Page 18 - These are the laws and customs which the burgesses of Newcastleupon-Tyne had in the time of Henry, king of England, and ought to have: Burgesses may make seizure for debt from those dwelling outside, within their market place and without, and within their house and without, and within their borough and without, without the license of the reeve, unless courts are held in the borough, and unless...
Page 60 - On each side a row of large round stones was arranged, and on these were supported broad flags of lime-stone, which covered the deposit. The distance and regularity of the graves seem to forbid the supposition of their tenants having fallen in battle...