Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Volume 1Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society., 1884 Vol. 7-10, 12-21 contain section: "Bibliography of Lancashire and Cheshire antiquities" (v. 12-21 include also bibliography). |
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Page 26 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 67 - Hie hebt sich an das puch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers || Marcho polo. In dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen || ding dieser welt. Sunderlichen von den grossen kunigen vnd || keysern die da herschen in den selbigen landen | vnd von irem |) volck vnd seiner gewonheit da selbs.
Page 28 - ... hidden springs, And guided by experience, whose straight wand Doth mete, whose line doth sound the depth of things, She cheerfully supporteth what she rears, Assisted by no strengths but are her own; Some note of which each varied pillar bears; By which, as proper titles, she is known Time's witness, herald of antiquity, The light of truth, and life of memory.
Page 33 - A human skull which, time out of mind, hath had a superstitious veneration paid to it by [the occupiers of the Hall ] not permitting it to be removed from its situation, which is on the topmost step of a staircase. There is a tradition that, if removed or ill-used, some uncommon noise and disturbance always follows, to the terror of the whole house; yet I cannot persuade myself this is always the case. But, some years ago, I and three of my acquaintances went to view this surprising piece of household...
Page 32 - Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
Page 34 - But what I can learn of the above affair from " old people in the neighbourhood is, that a young man of the " Downes family, being in London, one night in his frolics " vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man "he met; and accordingly he ran his sword through a man " immediately, a sailor by trade. However, justice overtook " him in his career of wickedness, for, in some while after, he " being in a riot upon London Bridge, a watchman made " a stroke at him with his bill, and severed...
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Page 34 - ... out-housing. We hearing of this, my father went over in a few days after to see his mother, who lived near the Hall, and was witness to the wreck the storm had made. Yet all this might have happened had the skull never been removed; but, withal, it keeps alive the credibility of its believers. " What I can learn of the above affair from old people in the neighbourhood is, that a young man of the Downes family, being in London, one night in his frolics vowed to his companions that he would kill...
Page 61 - Colonna, 6 vols., of which the first and second are now exhibited. These volumes remained in the possession of the Cardinal's heirs until quite recently, when they were brought to England from the Sciarra Colonna Library. The tradition handed down by the family was that the large full-page illuminations were executed by Raphael, about the year 1517, when the owner was made a Cardinal, and there is no doubt but that, if not actually by his hand, the work was done by his followers under his supervision.