 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1888 - 452 pages
...of land " at yc brook at ye head of Jonathan Woodman's land." TORR GARRISON. A garrison was built at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century by Benedictus Torr,1 but was burned down by the Indians soon after. Another was then erected, •which... | |
 | English periodicals - 1890 - 660 pages
...! So keen was the recollection of the wrong that no fair was held at Llanrwst from that day down to the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it was revived by the Lords of Gwydir under the name of the New Fair, and it still continues to... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Great Britain - 1890 - 456 pages
...for some time the main export, but mahogany, which came into use in England for making furniture at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, gradually rivalled and till lately superseded it in importance. Even in spite of the fall in value... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Canada - 1890 - 404 pages
...for some time the main export, but mahogany, which came into use in England for making furniture at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, gradually rivalled and till lately superseded it in importance. Even in spite of the fall in value... | |
 | Andrew Wanless - American literature - 1891 - 318 pages
...written by a Mr. Douglas upon one of the daughters of Sir Robert Lawrie, according to Robert Chambers, about the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. We quote the following, which sounds somewhat curious when we compare it with the present accepted... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 752 pages
...Pope and Southampton. The story has the appearance of truth, especially as any one inventing it at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century would have been likely to ascribe Cromwell's conduct to personal ambition, not to a sense of ' cruel... | |
 | Anthologies - 1892 - 448 pages
...— a book invaluable to one who wishes to study the manners and the ideas of bourgeois England at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century." Mr. Besant says that he found the book of use in writing " Dorothy Forster " and " For Faith and Freedom."... | |
 | Sidney Oldall Addy - Hallamshire (England) - 1893 - 362 pages
...— II Kings, xxiii, 3. A PLAN in the Duke of Norfolk's office without date, but made apparently at the end of the seventeenth, or the beginning of the eighteenth, century, gives some curious names HAGGIN FIELD of places and boundary marks between Loxley and Wadsley. Amongst... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1893 - 450 pages
...Pope and. Southampton. The story has the appearance of truth, especially as anyone inventing it at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century would have been likely to ascribe Cromwell's conduct to personal ambition, not to a sense of 'cruel... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - Baptists - 1893 - 598 pages
...who arranged it for use in our country. Some consider it as an amendment made by Henry Carey, near the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, from Dr. John Bull, who died in 1622. The tune was first published in England in honor of George II.... | |
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Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
