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... land . Other readers may perhaps be able to cite parallel cases of equal interest , which I should be pleased to see . My primary object , however , is to beg the favour of information from Irish sources as to the Provost Mac - Mahon ...
... land . Other readers may perhaps be able to cite parallel cases of equal interest , which I should be pleased to see . My primary object , however , is to beg the favour of information from Irish sources as to the Provost Mac - Mahon ...
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... land , known to have been in pasture for many generations . It is probable , therefore , that the seed has lain dormant not for eight or ten years , but for several_centuries . While on the subject of hedgerows , I may remark that many ...
... land , known to have been in pasture for many generations . It is probable , therefore , that the seed has lain dormant not for eight or ten years , but for several_centuries . While on the subject of hedgerows , I may remark that many ...
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... lands , for " al ye tym yat ye land is in warde till us , " at a rent of forty shillings annually . This shows that John Swinton was dead , and his heir a minor , wherefore the superior lords , the prior and convent of Coldinghame , had ...
... lands , for " al ye tym yat ye land is in warde till us , " at a rent of forty shillings annually . This shows that John Swinton was dead , and his heir a minor , wherefore the superior lords , the prior and convent of Coldinghame , had ...
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... land , whose chief diet was sour milk - a nickname the opposite to that of Tory , and is applied to those that were against the Court interest in the time of King Charles II . , King James II , & c . , and for it in the reign of King ...
... land , whose chief diet was sour milk - a nickname the opposite to that of Tory , and is applied to those that were against the Court interest in the time of King Charles II . , King James II , & c . , and for it in the reign of King ...
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... land to another ; in the later periods , the allotments incident to every house- holder only , the village itself remaining fixed . In- I should like to know whether , from the fact of their crests being identically the same , it shows ...
... land to another ; in the later periods , the allotments incident to every house- holder only , the village itself remaining fixed . In- I should like to know whether , from the fact of their crests being identically the same , it shows ...
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