The History of the Hundred of Wirral: With a Sketch of the City and County of ChesterWhittaker & Company, 1847 - 476 pages |
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abbey abbot acres afterwards ancient appears Backford baron of Halton barons Bebington Bidston Birkenhead Bishop building carucates castle census chancel chapel Cheshire church Claughton commenced Commissioners Company contains county books court daughter desmesne docks Doomsday survey Earl of Chester Eastham Edward England erected estates extensive feet Glegg Grange granted Hall Harold held Henry Henry VIII Heswall hide assessable Hooton houses Hugh hundred Hundred of Wirral inhabitants John king Lancashire land late Liverpool Lord manor Massey Meolse Mersey miles Mollington monastery monks neighbourhood Neston Norman obtained occupied Oxton parish Park Parliament persons possession Poulton present principal priory Puddington purchased Railway Randal rector reign residence Richard river Robert Saughall Saxon Seacombe shillings shore Shotwick side Sir Thomas Sir William situated Stanley stone Storeton Street town township Tranmere troops Vale Royal village Wales Wallasey Pool Welsh Werburgh Wirral Woodchurch yards
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Page 31 - As the Normans were marshalled in three divisions, so they began the battle by simultaneous attacks upon three points of the English forces. Immediately before the duke rode Taillefer the minstrel, singing, with a loud and clear voice, the lay of Charlemagne and Roland, and the emprises of the paladins who had fallen in the dolorous Pass of Roncevaux. Taillefer, as his guerdon, had craved permission to strike the first blow; for he was a valiant warrior, emulating the deeds which he sung. His appellation...
Page 155 - Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof...
Page 155 - Act. in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Page 309 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 31 - Englishman whom he attacked, and by felling the second to the ground. The battle now became general, and raged with the greatest fury. The Normans advanced beyond the English lines, but they were driven back, and forced into a trench, where horses and riders fell upon each other in fearful confusion. More Normans were slain here, than in any other part of the field. The alarm spread ; the light troops left in charge of the baggage and the stores thought that all was lost, and were about to take flight,...
Page 33 - By William's orders, a spot close to the Gonfanon -was cleared, and he caused his pavilion to be pitched among the corpses which were heaped around. He there supped with his barons ; and they feasted among the dead. But when he contemplated the fearful slaughter, a natural feeling of pity, perhaps allied to repentance, arose in his stern mind ; and the Abbey of Battle, in which the prayer was to be offered up perpetually for the repose of the souls of all who had fallen in the conflict, was at once...
Page 152 - ... that new and mighty power — new at least in the application of its might — which walks the water like a giant rejoicing in his course, — stemming alike the tempest and the tide ; — accelerating intercourse, shortening distances, — creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods and new combinations of social and commercial relations, — and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves the certainty and steadiness of a highway upon the land...
Page 7 - The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians; thus two modes of death await us; we are either slain or drowned.
Page 132 - He spoke very agreeably, and with much spirit." P. 695. Burnet. " Cartwright was promoted to Chester. He was a man of good capacity, and had made some progress in learning. He was ambitious and servile, cruel and boisterous ; and, by the great liberties he allowed himself, he fell under much scandal of the worst sort.
Page 36 - No recollection dwelt upon his name, as the hero who would sally forth from his seclusion, the restorer of the Anglo-Saxon power. That power had wholly fallen — and if the humbled Englishman, as he paced the aisles of Waltham, looked around, and, having assured himself that no Norman was near, whispered to his son, that the tomb which they saw before them was raised only in mockery, and that Harold still breathed the vital air — he yet knew too well that the spot where Harold's standard had been...