Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity.., Volume 15Society of Antiquaries of London. Sold at the house of the Society [of Antiquaries], in Chancery-Lane; and by Messieurs Whiston, White, Robson Baker and Leigh, and Brown., 1806 |
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Page 192 - ... weight; or else by walking, barefoot and blindfold, over nine red-hot ploughshares, laid lengthwise at unequal distances. And if the party escaped being hurt, he was adjudged innocent; but if it happened otherwise (as without collusion it usually did), he was then condemned as guilty.
Page 161 - A kind of fowling in the night, in which the birds are wakened by a bell, and lured by a flame into a net.
Page 194 - Water-ordeal was performed, either by plunging the bare arm up to the elbow in boiling water, and escaping unhurt therefrom: or by casting the person suspected into a river or pond of cold water; and if he floated therein without any action of swimming, it was deemed an evidence of his guilt; but, if he sunk, he was acquitted.
Page 264 - The almoner for the time being was directed to find for the convent "fine manchets, cakes, crumpets, cracknells, and wafers, and a gallon of wine for each friar, with three good pittances, or doles, with good ale in abundance at every table, and in the presence of the whole brotherhood ; in the same manner as upon other occasions the cellarer is bound to find beer at the usual feasts or anniversaries, in the great tankard of five quarts.
Page 287 - One small staff with a floure de luce on the topp, formerly thought to be all of gould, but upon triall found to be iron within and silver gilt without...
Page 156 - To the publicke fins and calamities of the ftate, no man lefle of fewell, more of forrow/ To his wife a man could not be more loving, more faithful : to his children and fervants more fatherly : to his friends more free, . more firm. He was truly eminently pious, humble, fobcr, juft, hofpitable, and charitable. Thefe things, reader, it concarneth thee to know of him, for that by thefe he dill lives, and being dead, yet fpeaketh — Farewell.
Page 400 - HENRY by the grace of God King of Englande and of Fraunce and Lord of Irlande.
Page 322 - This rational mode of adapting the works of art to thofe of nature, obviated the neceffity of ditches, which indeed do not feem to have been ufed, even where the ground was level. Vallies, ravines, and the beds of torrents, generally form their dykes and intrenchments, and the precipices above them are nearly as inacceflible as the walls which they fupport. The abrupt heights [/?] NB The only fpecimen of an arch I have fecn in the Grecian buildings, is ihe doorway of a finall detached fort an a rock...
Page 194 - ... indulgent. The space of nine feet was measured by the accused himself with his own feet, and he would probably give but scanty measure. He was obliged only to touch one of the marks with the toe of his right foot, and allowed to stretch the other foot as far towards the other mark as he could ; so that the conveyance was almost instantaneous. His hand was not immediately examined, but wrapped in a cloth, prepared for that purpose, three days.
Page 101 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitain, To all to wbom these present letters shall come greeting.