The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian, Relating to Cheshire, Chester and North Wales, from Many Scattered Fields ..., Volume 2"Chester Courant" Office, 1883 - Cheshire (England) |
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Common terms and phrases
Alderman ancient appears April Bell Birkenhead Bishop Bishop of Chester BRERETON brother Browne Willis BUNBURY buried called Castle Cathedral century Charles Cheshire Chester Castle Chester Cathedral Church Cittie City of Chester copy County of Chester daughter death Derby died Dublin Earl Edward Egerton Elizabeth Esq'r father Flintshire George Grosvenor Hall hath haue HAWARDEN heir Henry HUGHES inscription Ireland John Minshull John's King Knight Lady lands Lane late Ledsham letter London Lord Malpas Manor March married Mary Mayor Minshull MONK GIBBON Nantwich Original Documents Ormerod Oswestry parish Parliament Parry Peter present Prince printed Queries Randle Holme record Richard Robert Roger ROUNDHEAD sayd SHEAF Sheriff Sir John Sir Thomas sonne Stanley town tyme Vale Royal Vicar vnto vpon w'ch w'th Wales Weekly Diary Welsh wife William Wrenbury Wrexham yo'r
Popular passages
Page 204 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 209 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 209 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 343 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Page 316 - Hysteria might be described as possession, possession by seven devils, except that this number is quite insufficient to account for all the pranks played by the subjects of this extraordinary malady. I do not want to say anything against Mary Chase, but I suspect that, getting nervous and tired and hysteric, she got into bed, which she found rather agreeable after too much housework, and perhaps too much going to meeting; liked it better and better, curled herself up into a bunch which made her look...
Page 393 - He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow. But that, he believed, his nonsense suited their nonsense, for he had brought them all to church. And, in reward of his diligence, he had given him a bishopric in Ireland.
Page 198 - God bless the master of this house. Likewise the mistress too, And all the little children, That round the table go...
Page 221 - The good old dames, whenever they the chimney man espied, Unto their nooks they haste away, their pots and pipkins hide. There is not one old dame in ten, and search the nation through, But, if you talk of chimney men, will spare a curse or two.
Page 316 - ... posseted, and prayed over and made much of, and so lay quiet until a false paralysis caught hold of her legs and held her there. If some one had 'hollered' fire! it is not unlikely that she would have jumped out of bed, as many other such paralytics have done under such circumstances. She could have moved, probably enough, if any one could have made her believe that she had the power of doing it.
Page 26 - The Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.