On the Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities and Folk-lore of Worcestershire |
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Abberley Hill Alfrick Alvechurch ancient British anciently called Anglo-Saxon Antiquaries antiquities appears Archæologia Archæological Institute Barrow Bishop Bredon Hill Britons Bromsgrove Cartulary Castle Hill celt Chaddesley Corbett charter church Cleeve Prior Clent Codex Dip Coppice Cruckbarrow Hill Danes described Domesday Book Droitwich east Elbury Hill England Evesham feet Field formerly Gloucester Gloucestershire Hales Owen hamlet Heming's Cartulary Herefordshire Beacon Hill Camp Hoar inches jovial hunter Kempsey King land Lane Little Lower Lulsley Meadow mentioned Mercia miles Nash Nash's History noticed Oldbury Ombersley Orchard Ordnance Map parish Pendock Piece place called Portway pottery probably Quinton relics remarkable Ridgeway river road Robin Roman coins Round Hill Rycknield Street Salt-way Saxon says Severn side signifies situated spot stone Suckley supposed Tenbury Tewkesbury thence trench tumulus Upper Upton Vide Wall Hills Wood woodcut Woodmanton Worcester Worcestershire word yards
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Page 129 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 129 - When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
Page 430 - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
Page 458 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
Page 424 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Page 69 - The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have enclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle.
Page 425 - Hob-goblin or mad Crisp, And some againe doe tearme him oft by name of Will the Wispe ; But call him by what name you list, I have studied on my pillow, I think the best name he deserves is Robin the Good Fellow.
Page 460 - ... be gathered towards the east. Wash it till the oyle come white ; then put it into the glasse...
Page 459 - And in their courses make that round, In meadows and in marshes found, Of them so called the Fairy ground...
Page 46 - Cathedrall, which is now fitting for use, and the organ then a-tuning. Then away thence, observing the great doors of the church, as they say, covered with the skins of the Danes.1 And also had much mirth at a tombe.