 | Sir James Ware - Ireland - 1809 - 538 pages
...shall next succeed him in the said Captainry, if he live thereunto. ••'•.• ..;? Eadox. Doe they not use any ceremony in this election ? for all...foot, which they say was the measure of their first Captaines foot, whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | Sir James Ware - Ireland - 1809 - 534 pages
...barbarous nations are commonly great observers of ceremonies and superstitious rites. • i • ' • t Iren. They use to place him that shalbe their Captaine,...foot, which they say was the measure of their first Captaines foot, whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1813 - 444 pages
...rites ? '• Jren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1813 - 468 pages
...rites ? " Iren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill, In some of which I have seen form5 ed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 312 pages
...rites ? " fren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 444 pages
...rites ? " Iren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 342 pages
...rites ? " Iren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hilL In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot ; whereon hee standing,... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1825 - 752 pages
...accustomed taste and skill, the architect has con" They" (the Irish) " use lo place him that shall be their captaine, upon a stone alwayes reserved for...foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine'a foot, whereon bee standmg, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1825 - 684 pages
...architect has om" They" (the Irish) " use to place him that shall be their captaine, upon a stone alwaycs reserved for that purpose, and placed commonly upon...foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine't foot, whereon hue standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customcs... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...rights ? Iren. They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill; In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captain's foot ; whereon hee standing,... | |
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Captaines foot, whereon he standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose... 
