The Archaeological Journal, Volume 16Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1859 |
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Pagina 355 - It is only in romance, that we read of swords cutting through that solid front of iron, by which a knight was protected. The only way in which death could be inflicted, when he was mounted, was, by thrusting a lance through the small hole in the visor. Such a mode of death was not very common, for the cavalier always bent his face almost to the saddle-bow, when he charged.
Pagina 124 - ... three supreme servants of the isle of Britain; Caradog the son of Bran, the son of Llyr Llediaith; Cawrdav, the son of Caradog of the brawny arm; and Owain, son of Ambrosius. They were so called because all the men of the island of Britain, from the prince to the peasant, became their followers, at the need of the country, on account of the invasion and tyranny of the foe,
Pagina 169 - CCC quadragesimo nono, condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meam Deo Omnipotenti, Beate Marie, et omnibus sanctis, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesiam Sancti Martini juxta Ludgate dicte civitatis.
Pagina 198 - In one of the little bays there is a small chapel of rude masonry, half way down the cliff, known as St. Govan's Chapel ; it is approached by a long flight of steps, and according to popular story it is not possible to count their number correctly. A few yards lower in the ravine is a well, covered by a roof of rude construction ; it was doubtless originally used for baptism, and thence regarded as sacred, and it is still resorted to for the cure of diseases. The most singular part of the saint's...
Pagina 52 - It usually lay on a grave-stone in the Church-yard. When mad people were brought to be dipped in the Saint's Pool, it was necessary to perform certain ceremonies, in which there was a mixture of Druidism and Popery. After remaining all night in the Chapel, bound with ropes, the bell was set upon their head with great solemnity. It was the popular opinion that, if stolen, it would extricate itself out of the thief's hands, and return home, ringing all the way." It is added: "For some years past this...
Pagina 196 - ... the payment to finders of ancient coins, gold or silver ornaments, or other relics of antiquity in Scotland, of the actual value of the articles...
Pagina 107 - Roman roads whereby to communicate with Winchester and Old Sarum, the capitals of his two principal shires ; while another Roman road came to him from Silchester, through the heart of Berkshire, and the Icknield Street brought him the men of the Chiltern and adjacent parts of Oxfordshire. It was neither to protect, nor to be protected by, any temple of Woden that he took post at Wodensburgh.
Pagina 235 - Cumberland,' he indicated that many of the misstatements ' originate with the Chronicon Cumbriae, but these are amplified and augmented by succeeding compilers, especially by two persons of the name of Denton, whose manuscript collections have been the main source from whence modern historians of the county have derived their information as to the early descent of property, and the genealogy of its possessors.
Pagina 14 - ... brought overland or by other routes from the Asiatic Isles and shores towards Western Europe ? If so, Cornwall chiefly, if not wholly, supplied the tin which entered so many ways into the comforts and necessities during peace and war of all the nations surrounding the Mediterranean and Euxine, Baltic and German Ocean ; in fact, the world, as distinctly known to the Roman geographers. Let us now inquire into the means whereby the ancient people reduced the metals which they were so earnest in...
Pagina 123 - ... bore the names respectively of Constantinus and Aurelius, we can hardly avoid the conclusion that they were the descendants, however unworthy, of Aurelius Ambrosius; and when, moreover, we find Aurelius Conan reminded, in the same epistle, of the untimely end of his ancestors and of his brothers, we are almost necessarily led to infer, that he was the brother of the royal youths whom Constantino had murdered.