A guide containing a short historical sketch of Lynton and places adjacent in north Devon

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Стр. 58 - After the dispersing of the Duke's Army, they fled and put to Sea, but were driven back again, and with the Hazard of their Lives got on Shoar, (over dangerous Rocks) where they saw the Country filled with Soldiers, and they being unwilling to fall into the Hands of the Rabble, and no Way of Defence or Escape remaining to them, they surrendered themselves Prisoners to a Gentleman, whose House was near the Place they landed at...
Стр. 16 - A superscdeas and death seiz'd it not And for my downe cast body here it lyes A prisoner of hope it shall arise Faith doth assure me God of his great love In Christ will send a writt for my remove And set my body as my soul is free With Christ in heaven — come glorious libertie.
Стр. xvi - ... fishes) which shunning their ancient places of repair in Ireland come hither abundantly in shoals, offering themselves (as I may say) to the fishers' nets, who soon resorted hither with divers merchants, and so for five or six years continued (to the great benefit and good of the country) until...
Стр. xv - Lynmouth ; a place unworthy the name of a haven, only a little inlet, which, in these last times, God hath plentifully stored with herrings (the king of fishes), which, shunning their ancient places of repair in Ireland, come hither abundantly in shoals, offering themselves (as I may say) to the fishers...
Стр. 74 - Cam vis in Wales) procured this town to be made a borough with the privileges of waifs, estrays, wrecks, felons' goods, assize of bread and ale, and pillory; with a market on Thursday, and a fair on Whitsun Monday.
Стр. 16 - Death his grim serjieant hath arrested me No bayle was to be given no law could save My body from the prison of the grave Yet by the gospell my poore soule had got A...
Стр. xvi - Papers, 1660, p. 212; Gent. Mag. lii.69. Henry VIII., who derived his descent from the Norman baron of that name, a combatant on William's side at the battle of Hastings : but his connection with Robert Malet, one of the judges of the King's Bench in the reign of Edward I. cannot now be traced. The subject of this memoir was born about the year 1582, and took his legal degrees in the Middle Temple, entering that society on November 29, 1600, being called to the bar on November 7, 1606, and becoming...
Стр. xv - In his quaint language he tells us of this 'little inlet, which in these last times God hath plentifully stored with herrings (the king of fishes), which, shunning their ancient place of repair in Ireland, come hither abundantly in shoals, offering themselves (as I may say) to the fishers
Стр. 74 - Westcott's account is that it "dyriveth its name from the situation beinge a low and deepe valley surrounded with very high hills (towards the sea excepted) and the addition of Martins from Le Sieur Martin de Turon, a man of much worth and assistant to William Duke of Normandye, when he conquered this land, of whom he had this with other great possessions given him.
Стр. 110 - Great, is a vicarage in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral.

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