 | John Watkins - 1807 - 1014 pages
...forgery. In 17(JS appeared in a Bristol newspaper, an article entitled " A Description of the Friar« first passing over the old bridge, taken from an ancient manuscript." This attracted the notice of Mr. Barrett, who was engaged in writing the history of Bristol; and he obtained... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...public, was published in the Bristol papers October I76S, and entitled " A Description of the Friars first passing over the old bridge, taken from an ancient manuscript." This curious document excited considerable curiosity, and after much enquiry, it was discovered that the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...appropriate ceremonies, and to Felix Farley's Bristol Journal a certain Dunhelmus Bristoliensis contributed a ' Description of the Mayor's first passing over the Old Bridge, taken from an old Manuscript.' Astonished antiquarians besieged the editor, and Dunhelmus Bristoliensis turned out... | |
 | 1844 - 582 pages
...sixteen years of age, an article appeared in a Bristol paper, entitled, "A Description of the Friars first passing over the Old Bridge, taken from an ancient manuscript." This attracted the notice of Mr. Barrett, who was then writing the History of Bristol ; and he obtained... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 528 pages
...demolished. It was accompanied by the following note to the printer : — MR. PRINTER, The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old Manuscript, may not [at this time] be unacceptable to the generality of your readers. Your's, Sec.... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 492 pages
...demolished. It was accompanied by the following note to the printer : — MB. PKINTEK, The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old Manuscript, may not [at this time] be unacceptable to the generality of your readers. Your's, &c.... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 494 pages
...demolished. It was accompanied by the following note to the printer : — MB. PRINTER, The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old Manuscript, may not [at this time] be unacceptable to the generality of your readers. Your's, &c.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...appeared in Farley's Bristol Journal, from a correspondent signing himself " Dunhelmus Bristolensis," "a description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old manuscript." At the office of the journal no one could tell who sent the contribution or who had... | |
 | 1870 - 878 pages
...every kind of illustration appropriate to every variety of experience might be found. " The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the Old Bridge, taken from an old MS., may not at this time be unacceptable to the generality of your readers," he says, signing... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pages
...manner of opening the old bridge, prefaced by the following letter : " Mr. Printer, — The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old manuscript, may not (at this time) be unacceptable to the generality of your readers. Yours, &c.... | |
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MR. PRINTER, — The following description of the Mayor's first passing over the old bridge, taken from an old Manuscript, may not [at this time] be unacceptable, to the generality of your readers. 
