A survey of Staffordshire, with a description of Beeston-castle in Cheshire. To which are added some Observations upon the possessors of monastery-lands in Staffordshire, by sir S. Degge. Collated with MS. copies, and with additions and corrections, by Wyrley [and others] by T. Harwood |
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20 Conq 9 Edw abbey afterwards ancient anno Argent Arms Aston Azure baron bart Basset bishop Blount Brocton Bromley brother Burton castle Chartley Cheshire Chester Chetwynd chevron church Comberford Darlaston daugh daughter and heir daughter of sir Degge Derby descended died without issue Domesday Draycote Dudley duke Dyott earl earl of Chester Eccleshall Eliz Elizabeth Ellenhall Erdeswick father Ferrers Grendon Gresley Gules hath held Henry de Ferrers Henry the Third's Hugh Humphry issue John issue Richard issue Robert issue sir issue Thomas issue William James king king's knight lands Lichfield lord thereof manor Margaret marriage married to sir miles Nicholas Peshall Ralph Raufe Robert de Stafford Roger Rugeley Sable seat Seisdon sheriff shire sir John sir Richard sir Robert sir Thomas sir William Smyth sold Stafford Staffordshire temp Tixall Trent Tutbury Vernon viscount Warwickshire Weston wife Will'us Wolseley Wrottesley Wyrley
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Էջ 203 - ... heads, three of them painted white, and three red, with the arms of the chief families (Paget, Bagot, and Wells) depicted on the palms of them, with which they danced the hays and other country dances. To this Hobby-horse Dance there also belonged a pot, which was kept by turns by four or five of the chief of the town, whom they called Reeves, who provided cakes and ale to put in this pot...
Էջ 221 - I layed by eleven guineas on this day, when I received twenty pounds, being all that I have reason to hope for out of my father's effects, previous to the death of my mother; an event which I pray GOD may be very remote. I now, therefore, see that I must make my own fortune. Meanwhile, let me take...
Էջ 175 - ... alive at the same time, so that she could say to her daughter, " Rise daughter, go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's daughter hath got a daughter.
Էջ 94 - There Dutton, Dutton kills ; a Done doth kill a Done ; A Booth a Booth ; and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown ; A Venables against a Venables doth stand, A Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand ; There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die, And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try.
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Էջ 360 - I have heard, hath made a parlour of the chancel, a hall of the church, and a kitchen of the steeple, which may be true, for I have known a gentleman in Cheshire who hath done the like.
Էջ 372 - Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitch6e argent. 50. HENRY PERCY, 4th Earl of Northumberland, Quarterly, 1 and 4, or, a lion rampant azure, 2 and 3, gules, three luces haurient argent. 51. THOMAS HOWARD, Duke of Norfolk, as before, with the augmentation on the bend. 52. GEORGE TALBOT, Earl of Shrewsbury, Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or. 53. GEORGE STANLEY, Lord Straro-e, of Knockin, Argent, on a bend azure, three bucks'-heads caboshul or.
Էջ 94 - Egerion doth try. A wooden cross was erected on the field of battle soon after the action, to mark the spot where lord Audley fell, which having been thrown down by a cow rubbing against it, the Lord of the manor ordered a stone pedestal, to be placed there with the cross upon it. The height of both together measures VOL.
Էջ 17 - Burton, the author of his funeral oration, calls him not only the Coryphaeus, but the very soul and sun of all the mathematicians of his time.