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... piece of ruby- coloured glass having been found in the hill . As the urn or jug , No. 2 , was discovered about a third of the way up the hill , and about sixteen or eighteen feet deep , from the side horizontally towards the centre ...
... piece of ruby- coloured glass having been found in the hill . As the urn or jug , No. 2 , was discovered about a third of the way up the hill , and about sixteen or eighteen feet deep , from the side horizontally towards the centre ...
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... piece of blue lime- stone Gothic tracery ; both in the early English style . A Dutch copper coin , with the name Hollandea upon it , was also discovered * These alternate courses very much resembled those in the Roman pharos at Dover ...
... piece of blue lime- stone Gothic tracery ; both in the early English style . A Dutch copper coin , with the name Hollandea upon it , was also discovered * These alternate courses very much resembled those in the Roman pharos at Dover ...
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... piece of Samian ware ; a little nearer to the river , at the same depth , the horns and part of the skull * See Nash , Vol . i . , Introduction , p . 65 . + A small extinct ox , the Bos longifrons of Mr. Owen ; fragments of the bones of ...
... piece of Samian ware ; a little nearer to the river , at the same depth , the horns and part of the skull * See Nash , Vol . i . , Introduction , p . 65 . + A small extinct ox , the Bos longifrons of Mr. Owen ; fragments of the bones of ...
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... piece of lead as a guide , twelve inches long and seven inches broad ; it may , however , be questionable whether the smaller plate of lead was an end - piece or a plate at the top of the box . Its length exactly corresponds with the ...
... piece of lead as a guide , twelve inches long and seven inches broad ; it may , however , be questionable whether the smaller plate of lead was an end - piece or a plate at the top of the box . Its length exactly corresponds with the ...
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... piece of land , called " The Fort , " is described as situated in Windmill Field , near Little Losemore and Great Losemore . In a lease , granted by the Bishop of Wor- cester in 1668 , it is spelled Losemoore ; in another lease ( 1751 ) ...
... piece of land , called " The Fort , " is described as situated in Windmill Field , near Little Losemore and Great Losemore . In a lease , granted by the Bishop of Wor- cester in 1668 , it is spelled Losemoore ; in another lease ( 1751 ) ...
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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...