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... Hill Camp and the Herefordshire Beacon Camp , on Malvern Hills , north - eastward , to Powick , and back to Worcester , ITER II . From Worcester , south - eastward , to Eckington , Ad Antonam , Strensham , Norton in Bredon , Bredon Hill ...
... Hill Camp and the Herefordshire Beacon Camp , on Malvern Hills , north - eastward , to Powick , and back to Worcester , ITER II . From Worcester , south - eastward , to Eckington , Ad Antonam , Strensham , Norton in Bredon , Bredon Hill ...
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Jabez Allies. ITER III . PAGE From Worcester , northward , by Elbury Hill Camp to Droitwich , Ombersley , Salwarp , Stoke Prior , Lincomb in Astley , Hartlebury , Bromsgrove , Chaddesley Corbett , Belbroughton , Clent , Hagley , Hales ...
Jabez Allies. ITER III . PAGE From Worcester , northward , by Elbury Hill Camp to Droitwich , Ombersley , Salwarp , Stoke Prior , Lincomb in Astley , Hartlebury , Bromsgrove , Chaddesley Corbett , Belbroughton , Clent , Hagley , Hales ...
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... Hills Camp , in Herefordshire , partly through Worcestershire , and partly through Glou- cestershire , to Gloucester , . ITER XI . From Wall Hills Camp to the Herefordshire Beacon Camp , on Little Malvern Hill , and then to the ...
... Hills Camp , in Herefordshire , partly through Worcestershire , and partly through Glou- cestershire , to Gloucester , . ITER XI . From Wall Hills Camp to the Herefordshire Beacon Camp , on Little Malvern Hill , and then to the ...
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... Camp , in Ombersley , Wassal Hill Camp , in the Parish of Kidderminster , to Over Arley , PAGE 286 , 290 290 , 309 ITER XVI . The Upper Salt - way from Droitwich to Edgbaston , near Birmingham , ITER XVII . The Lower Salt - way from ...
... Camp , in Ombersley , Wassal Hill Camp , in the Parish of Kidderminster , to Over Arley , PAGE 286 , 290 290 , 309 ITER XVI . The Upper Salt - way from Droitwich to Edgbaston , near Birmingham , ITER XVII . The Lower Salt - way from ...
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... Camp · The Bambury Stone Ambrosia Petræ Coin The like 39 • Perdeswell . Bredon Hill , Ke- merton . 1 , Ke- } 177 179 Plate V. • . 208 . 209 Plate VI . . 230 365 ib . 378 . 379 List of Subscribers . The late Most Noble the MARQUIS.
... Camp · The Bambury Stone Ambrosia Petræ Coin The like 39 • Perdeswell . Bredon Hill , Ke- merton . 1 , Ke- } 177 179 Plate V. • . 208 . 209 Plate VI . . 230 365 ib . 378 . 379 List of Subscribers . The late Most Noble the MARQUIS.
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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 History Hoar inches jovial hunter Kempsey King land Lane Little Lower Lulsley Meadow mentioned Mercia miles Morton Nash Nash's noticed Oldbury Ombersley Orchard Ordnance Map parish Pendock Piece place called Portway 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 176 - Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 456 - 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 422 - 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 456 - PUCK. How now, spirit! whither wander you? FAIRY. 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.
Page 423 - 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 450 - To walke nightly, as do the men fayries, we use not ; but now and then we goe together, and at good huswives fires we warme and dresse our fayry children. If wee find cleane water and cleane towels, wee leave them money, either in their basons or in their shooes ; but if wee find no cleane water in their houses, we wash our children in their pottage, milke, or beere, or what-ere we finde...
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.
Page 415 - ... being attached to the persons, not to place, would remove also, and commence his revels in the new habitation. The dobbies residing in lone granges, or barns, and near antiquated towers, bridges, &c., have a character imputed to them different from that of the house-demons. Benighted travellers are thought to be much endangered by passing their haunts : for, as grave legends assure us, an angry sprite will sometimes jump behind a horseman, and compress him so tightly that he either perishes before...