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University Press, 1912 - Rutland (England) - 171 pages
 

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Page 104 - There is at Oakham," says the Inquisition, "a castle well walled, and in that castle there are one hall, four chambers, one kitchen, two stables, one grange for hay, one house for prisoners, one chamber for the porter, one drawbridge with iron chains, and the castle contains within its walls by estimation two acres of land ; the aforesaid houses are worth nothing annually beyond reprises, and the same house is similarly called the Manor of Oakham. There is without the castle one garden, which is...
Page 53 - Celts in the midland districts may have lived in permanent villages, raising crops of oats or some rougher kind of grain for food, and weaving themselves garments of hair or of coarse wool from their puny, many-horned sheep. But the ruder tribes, who subsisted entirely by their cattle, would naturally follow the herd, living through the summer in booths on the higher pasture-grounds, and only returning to the valleys to find shelter...
Page 11 - Lyfield shews herself as brave a nymph as she ? What river ever rose from bank, or swelling hill, Than Rutland's wandering Wash, a delicater rill ? Small shire that can'st produce to thy proportion good, One vale of special name, one forest, and one flood...
Page 10 - What thou in greatness wants, wise Nature doth impart In goodness of thy soil ; and more delicious mould, Surveying all this isle, the sun did ne'er behold. Bring forth that British vale, and be it ne'er so rare, But Catmose with that vale for richness shall compare...
Page 6 - Ratae as that Kent should be called from the Cantii, or that London and Lincoln should retain their Roman names to the present day." In fact, as the concluding remarks run : — " Everything, indeed, seems to show that the district, as a popular division, goes back to a far earlier time than the artificial arrangement which made it into a recognised administrative unit. One mark of its real origin may, perhaps, be seen in the fact that alone among Mercian shires it is not named after its county town....
Page 49 - Miles (The figures give the approximate annual rainfall in inches) sunshine, etc., made by many observers stationed in various parts of the country; and at the end of the year the averages or "means" are worked out for Great Britain as a whole as well as for counties and agricultural divisions.
Page 92 - there seems to have been a desire in the architects who succeeded the Normans to preserve the doors of their predecessors ; whence we have so many of these noble, though in most cases, rude efforts of skill remaining. In many small churches, where all has been swept away to make room for alterations, even in the Perpendicular style, the Norman door has been suffered U> remain.
Page 139 - His little waistcoat of blue satin, slashed and ornamented with pinked white silk, and his breeches and stockings, in one piece of blue satin, may still be seen in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
Page 71 - Sir Heneage Finch, Recorder of London and Speaker of the House of Commons.
Page 123 - The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake, in Anglo-Saxon times. "It is very probable,

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