England's Topographer, Or, A New and Complete History of the County of Kent: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time : Including Every Modern Improvement, Volum 3

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Geo. Virtue, 1829
 

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Pàgina 598 - The two dukes appear at the appointed time and place, when the king forbids the combat, and banishes the duke of Hereford for ten years and the duke of Norfolk for life.
Pàgina 423 - Camden, in his eulogium on him, says, " he was the great glory of his family, the great hopes of mankind, the most lively pattern of virtue, and the darling of the learned world 3.
Pàgina 63 - ... we do hereby claim and declare, 1. That it is the undoubted right of the people of England, in case their representatives in parliament do not proceed according to their duty, and the people's interest, to inform them of their dislike, disown their actions, and to direct them to such things as they think fit, either by petition, address, proposal, memorial, or any other peaceable way.
Pàgina 504 - Bendeville, by the service of bearing one of the king's goshawks beyond sea, from the feast of St. Michael to that of the Purification...
Pàgina 252 - BIDDENDEN is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury and deanery of Charing.
Pàgina 622 - In fourteen hundred and none there was neither stick nor stone ; In fourteen hundred and three the goodly building which you see.
Pàgina 615 - Against this board they strike with strong staves, which violently bringing about the bag of sand, if they make not good speed away, it strikes them in the neck or shoulders, and sometimes knocks them off their horses ; the great design of this sport being to try the agility both of horse and man, and to break the board. It is now...
Pàgina 218 - He was a distinguished character, both in a military and civil capacity, and became one of the most eminent men of his time. He was...
Pàgina 63 - I have been informed since, that it was a mistake, and 'twas delivered by the very person who wrote it, guarded by about sixteen gentlemen of quality, who, if any notice had been taken of him, were ready to have carried him off by force.
Pàgina 528 - Wrotham, most probably at the palace, and bore for his arms, quarterly, Sable and argent in the first quarter, a lion rampant of the second, armed and langued gules.

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