Richmondshire and the Vale of MowbrayE. Stock, 1906 - Richmond (North Yorkshire, England) |
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Aldborough ancient antique arch bank beautiful beck Birdforth Boltby Boroughbridge bridge Byland Abbey castle Celt Celtic century chancel chapel charming church Codbeck colour Coxwold cross Devil's Arrows district doubtless early east Edmund Bogg English fields flowers formerly Fountains green ground Hall Hambleton hedgerows hill Husthwaite Hutton Hutton Conyers John Kilburn King Kirkby known land lane Lord Manor Marmion Masham meadow memory mile mill moat monastery monks moor mound night Norman North Kilvington Norton Conyers Osmotherley Owen Bowen Park passed Percy picturesque reach relics rest Ripon river road Rodwell Roger de Mowbray Roman Roulston Scar ruins Saxon says scene Scots side Skell spot stands stone stood story strange stream street Swale Tanfield Thirkleby Thirsk tomb Topcliffe tower town trees Vale of Mowbray valley village walls whilst wild Winksley wood yellow Yore York Yorkshire
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Page 130 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
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Page 109 - Baldersby, Rainton, Dishforth, and Hewick, have right of estray for their sheep to certain limited boundaries on the common, and each township has a shepherd. The lord's shepherd has a preeminence of tending his sheep on every part of the common ; and wherever he herds the lord's sheep, the several other shepherds are to give way to him, and give up their hoofing-place, so long as he pleases to depasture the lord's sheep thereon.
Page 300 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 43 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
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Page 426 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 110 - The bailiff of the manor measures them with a rule, and takes the diameter ; and if they are not of a sufficient capacity, he threatens to return them, and fine the town. If they are large enough, he divides them with a rule and compasses into four equal parts ; of which the steward claims one, the warrener another, and the remainder is divided amongst the shepherds.
Page 109 - Hewick, who compounds by paying sixteenpence for ale (which is drunk as after mentioned) and a wooden spoon ; each pie is cut in two, and divided by the bailiff, one half between the steward, bailiff, and the tenant of the coney-warren before mentioned, and the other half into six parts, and divided amongst the six shepherds of the beforementioned six townships.