This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...forest, and forty shillings a year freehold: upon which account, he is allowed to hunt or course in his own purlieu, with certain limitations. ORIGIN OF THE MARQUIS OF ANANDAIE S CHEST.--A SPUR. One of the ancestors of the Marquis of Anandale, being at the court of England, many years back, a plot was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...forest, and forty shillings a year freehold: upon which account, he is allowed to hunt or course in his own purlieu, with certain limitations. ORIGIN OF THE MARQUIS OF ANANDAIE S CHEST.--A SPUR. One of the ancestors of the Marquis of Anandale, being at the court of England, many years back, a plot was laid to take away his life, when an unknown person privately put a pair of spurs into his hand. The Marquis immediately understood the meaning of the present and fled; and from this incident the family took a spur for their crest, to which they added a wing as a mark of their activity. RECLUSE--ORIGIN OF THE WORD. Agnes Rochier, a beautiful girl, was the daughter of a merchant, who had left her a great fortune, at the age of eighteen, made herself a recluse, in the parish of St. Opportuna, on the 5th of October, 1403. The appellation of recluse was given to maidens, or widows, who caused a little room to be built for them against the wall of some church. A reclusion was performed with great solemnity: tbe church was hung with tapestry; masses were celebrated by a bishop, in his robes; to this succeeded a sermon, preached by the bishop himself, who then, after copiously sprinkling the little room with holy water, put his seal on the door. The only aperture was a small window, through which the recluse heard divine service, and received her necessaries. Agnes lived ninety-nine years. Origin Of The Inst1tutionof The Title Of Sher Riffs; And Of The Lord Mayor Of London, Drinking To 6entlemen For That Office. In the tenth year of the reign of King John, anno 1208, the citizens of London had a charter from him to choose their mayor, whom the king named before himself, and on Michaelmas-day they chose Henry Fitz Alwin to be their mayor. On the same...
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