Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

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Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes.
 

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Trang 72 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Trang 48 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Trang 27 - ... of forest laws imported from the continent, whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue...
Trang 110 - An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself.
Trang 29 - A man, therefore, that has the franchise of warren, is in reality no more than a royal gamekeeper : but no man, not even a lord of a manor, could by common law justify sporting on another's soil, or even on his own, unless he had the liberty of freewarren.
Trang 27 - In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue and kill it, upon his own estate. But the rigour of these new constitutions vested the sole property of all the game in England in the king alone ; and no man was entitled to disturb any fowl of the air, or any beast of the field, of such kinds as were specially reserved for the royal amusement of the sovereign, without express licence from the king, by a grant of a chase or free warren:...
Trang 110 - ... mind, whether he would receive so dangerous a guest as me : and therefore stayed in a field under a hedge, by a great tree, commanding him not to say it was I, but only to ask Mr Woolfe whether he would receive an English gentleman, a person of quality, to hide him the next day, till we could travel again by night — for I durst not go but by night.
Trang 28 - But a chase differs from a park, in that it is not enclosed, and also in that a man may have a chase in another man's ground as well as in his own, being indeed the liberty of keeping beasts of chase or royal game therein, protected even from the owner of the land, with a power of...
Trang 113 - Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland, containing an exact History of their Occasion, Original! Progress, and happy End : folio, calf gilt, 18s.
Trang 27 - All evil customs of Forests and Warrens, and of Foresters and Warreners, Sheriffs and their officers, Waterbanks and their keepers, shall immediately be inquired into by twelve knights of the same county, upon oath, who shall be...

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