 | Francis Grose - 1784 - 422 pages
...but coignedand faced in many parts with a red gritt found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable this island has been fortified in some manner ever...encompassed it with a wall, probably about the year 1500. It could never have been of any considerable strength, being commanded towards the south-west or land... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 650 pages
...coigncd and faced in many parts with a red grit found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable that this Island has been fortified in some manner ever...have been constructed by Thomas, Earl of Derby, who iirst encompassed it with a wall, probably about the year 1500. " Here are the remains of two churches;... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 652 pages
...coigned and faced in many parts with a red grit found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable that this Island has been fortified in some manner ever...but the present works are said, by Bishop Wilson, to hare been constructed by Thomas, Earl of Derby, who first encompassed it with a wall, probably about... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 654 pages
...coigned and faced in many parts with a red grit found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable that this Island has been fortified in some manner ever...churches were built ; but the present works are said, by ])ishop Wilson, to have been constructed by Thomas, Earl of Derby, who first encompassed it with a... | |
 | Theodore Henry Fielding - 1825 - 92 pages
...coigned and faced in many parts, with a red grit found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable that this island has been fortified in some manner ever...encompassed it with a wall, probably about the year 1500. 36 CATHEDRAL IN THE ISLE OF MAN. HERE are the remains of two churches, one dedicated to St. Patrick,... | |
 | John Feltham - 1861 - 322 pages
...but coigned and faced in many parts with a red grit found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable this island has been fortified in some manner ever...of two churches, one dedicated to St. Patrick, the era of its erection unknown ; the other called St. German's, or the cathedral, constructed about the... | |
 | Manx Society - 1871 - 272 pages
...coigned and faced in many parts with a red gritt found in the neighbourhood. It is highly probable this island has been fortified in some manner ever...Wilson, to have been constructed by Thomas Earl of Darby, who first encompassed it with a wall, probably about the year 1500. It could never have been... | |
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It is highly probable this island has been fortified in some manner ever since the churches were built ; but the present works are said, by Bishop Wilson, to have been constructed by Thomas Earl of Derby, who first encompassed it with a wall, probably... 