History of Newcastle and Gateshead ...: In the 14th and 15th centuries. [1884

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Richard Welford
W. Scott, 1884
 

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Página 206 - For that so much Dung and Filth of the Garbage and Intrails as well of Beasts killed, as of other Corruptions, be cast and put in Ditches, Rivers and other Waters, and also within many other Places, within, about and nigh unto divers Cities, Boroughs, and Towns of the Realm, and the suburbs of them, that the air there is greatly corrupt and infect, and many Maladies and other intolerable Diseases do daily happen...
Página 18 - Surrounded by his officers of state, or marching at the head of his troops, in peace or in war, he appeared as the military chief of a powerful and independent franchise. The court of Durham exhibited all the appendages of royalty : nobles addressed the palatine sovereign kneeling, and, instead of menial servants, knights waited in his presence-chamber, and at his table, bareheaded and standing.
Página 291 - Acton, until his time ; and when I was chamberlain of the town, which was about the time of Sir Nicholas Cole's being mayor, in the year 1640, it was then in the town's chamber ; when Trollop built the town court, he borrowed it but would never return it.
Página ix - Scottes to gainstand ; and to defend And dwell therein the people to incline, The town to build and wall, as did append, He gave them ground and gold full great to spend, To build it well and wall it all about, And franchised them to pay a free rent out.
Página 58 - ... nul acoupement * See MS. Harl. No. 88, f. 160, for the record and process of the judgment passed upon Andrew de Harcla, Earl of Carlisle. He was attainted of high treason for allying himself, both by oath and writing, to maintain Robert Bruce as king of Scotland. For which treason he was adjudged to be drawn, hanged, and beheaded, his heart and entrails torn out, burnt to ashes, and the ashes cast to the winds, his carcase to be cut into four quarters, one to be hanged at the top of the tower...
Página 347 - Esq., be this delivered in haste. RIGHT worshipful brother I recommend me to you; please it you to weet, that as this day we had tidings here ' that the Scots will come into England within seven days after the writing of this letter, for to rescue these three castles...
Página 255 - Mary, and all the Saints, and my body to be buried in the Church of Multon near the grave of my father.
Página 119 - Every burgess may have a mill of his own upon his own land, horse-mill, water-mill, wind-mill, or hand-mill ; he may also have an oven or furnace, but not to bake bread to sell ; and he may receive his neighbours unto his oven, saving the right of our sovereign lord the king of furnace or bakehouse.
Página 351 - And then the king . . . had knowledge of the false disposition of this false Duke Harry of Somerset. The king sent a great fellowship of his household men to keep the town of Newcastle, and made Lord Scrope of Bolton captain of the town; and so they kept it surely all that winter.
Página iv - Town & its Neighbourhood, for Twelve Miles Round: and Including an Account of the Roman Wall, and a Detailed History of The Coal Trade. The Whole illustrated by a Map of the Various Coal Mines on the Rivers Tyne and Wear, a Plan of Newcastle, and other Engravings.

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