Publications of the Surtees Society, Volume 40

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Surtees Society, 1861
 

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Page 161 - Hughe, what makethe thee here ?' and he spake never word, but lifte up his cloke, and then he shewed Sir Anton his ribbes set with bones, and nothing more ; and none other of the varlets saw him but the busshop only ; and ye...
Page 64 - ... to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke...
Page 135 - I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government either in Church or State.
Page 135 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King ; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissionated by him...
Page 116 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time.
Page 219 - DID you ever hear tell of that hero, Bold Nevison that was his name ? He rode about like a bold hero, And with that he gained great fame.
Page 187 - I believe, a person of some little literary distinction. There is lying before me a play of which he is supposed to have been the author. As there is, in all probability, no other copy of it in the' North of England, the reader will thank me for a farther account of it. The title runs as follows, " The tragedy of the unhappy fair Irene. By Gilbert Swinhoe, Esq. London, printed by J. Streater, for W. Place, at Grays-Inn gate, next Holborn, M.DC.LVIII.
Page 296 - Brand. 1688 (Feb. 11). — This year, a writ of quo warranto was served upon the mayor of Newcastle, and on the 8th of March following, a surrender of the charter of that town was sealed under the commonseal, and signed by sir William Creagh...
Page 95 - This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed. The King and his new Queen minding their pleasures at Hampton Court.
Page 197 - This informant was ridden upon by an inchanted bridle by Michael Aynsly and Margaret his wife, Which inchanted bridle, when they tooke it of from her head, she stood upp in her owne proper person.... Jane Baites of Corbridge come in the forme of a gray catt with a bridle hanging on her foote, and bridled her, and rid upon her in the name of the...

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