Chronology: Or, The Historian's Companion : Being an Authentic Register of Events, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...T. Tegg, 1824 - 312 pages |
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Page 157 - London alone sustained was computed at one million sterling, and the city of Bristol lost to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds. Among the persons who were drowned was Rear-Admiral Beaumont.
Page 168 - SWEIN was proclaimed king of England in 1013, and no person disputed his title. His first act of sovereignty was an insupportable tax, which he did not live to see collected. He died Feb. 3, 1014, at Thetford, in Norfolk.
Page xvi - The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are...
Page 129 - ... the loss of 1500 men killed ; and the duke himself was slain by a Scotch knight ; the earls of Somerset, Dorset, and Huntingdon were taken prisoners, April 3, 1421. — Hume. BEAM AND SCALES. The apparatus for weighing goods was so called, " as it weighs so much at the king's beam.
Page xi - Romans into four parts, which they denominated wa'.ches or vigils; the first commenced at six in the morning, the second at nine, the third at twelve, and the fourth at three in the afternoon. The...
Page 167 - Mercians, fifteenth monarch, in 716; built C'royland abbey, in Lincolnshire. He was slain by his own subjects, when he was leading his troops against Cuthred, the West Saxon, at Secondine, three miles from Tamworth, in Warwickshire, and was buried at Repton, in Derbyshire, in 756. OFFA, the eleventh king of the Mercians, and the sixteenth monarch, 7C6.
Page 72 - This was done by dividing the kingdom into baronies, and giving them to certain persons, requiring them to furnish the king with money, and a stated number of soldiers. These laws were discountenanced in France by Louis XI.
Page 309 - Francis the first of France, who first set on and stamped this disgrace so deep, is taxed by the judgment of all wise writers for beginning the vanity of it; for it was he, that when he had himself given the lie and defy to the Emperor, to make it current in the world, said in a solemn assembly, That he was no honest man that would bear the lie: which was the fountain of this new learning.
Page 11 - August 2d. ; in the second, 4d., per day, and so on, till the end of August, without meat, drink, or other allowance, finding their own tools. For thrashing a quarter of wheat or rye, 2|d.
Page 231 - This is the most antient and noble lay order in the world, and the only one which has been granted to foreign princes. Of this illustrious order there have been eight emperors of Germany ; five kings of France ; three kings of Spain ; one king of Arragon ; seven kings of Portugal ; one king of Poland ; two kings of Sweden ; six kings of Denmark ; two kings of Naples ; one king of Sicily and Jerusalem ; one king of Bohemia ; two kings of Scotland ; five princes of Orange ; and thirty-four foreign...