A history of the castle of Halton and the priory or abbey of Norton, with an account of the barons of Halton, the priors and abbots of NortonPercival Pearse, 1873 |
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abbey afterwards amongst appurtenances Arley Aston bailiff baron of Halton became Bishop brother Budworth called canons castle of Halton chapel charter Ches Cheshire Chet church Congleton constable of Chester court Daresbury daughter death died duchy Duke of Lancaster duke's Dutton Earl of Derby Earl Rivers earl's Edward Edward III England father fishery Geoffrey grant Halton Castle heirs Henry de Lacy Henry III honour house of Norton Hugh Ibid John of Gaunt king king's knight Lancashire Leicester Lincoln Lord lordship manor married Mersey monastery neighbourhood oxgangs Parliament possession price the acre Prince prisoners probably Randle received religious houses Richard Brooke Robert Rock Savage Runcorn seneschal seneschal of Halton sheriff Sir John Savage Sir Piers Sir Richard Brooke Sir Thomas Sir William Brereton Stanlaw succeeded tenants Thelwall took Vale Royal Warrington Whalley wife William fitz Nigel
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Seite 128 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field?
Seite 74 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth.
Seite 74 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Seite 20 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross...
Seite 73 - Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son, Here to make good the boist'rous late appeal, Which then our leisure would not let us hear, Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?
Seite 201 - the holy fathers, monks and friars, had in their confessions, and specially in their extreme and deadly sickness, convinced the laity how dangerous a practice it was, for one Christian man to hold another in bondage : So that temporal men by little and little, by reason of that terror in their consciences, were glad to manumit all their villeins.
Seite 132 - Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
Seite 131 - A woman, having a settlement, married a man with none ; The question was, he being dead, if that she had was gone. Quoth Sir John Pratt : ' Her settlement suspended did remain, Living the husband ; but, him dead, it doth revive again.
Seite 200 - For the children of villeins were also in the same state of bondage with their parents; whence they were called in Latin nativi, which gave rise to the female appellation of a villein, who was called a neife (m).
Seite 140 - Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps ; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...