The History and Description of Colchester: (the Camulodunum of the Britans, and the First Roman Colony in Britain) : with an Account of the Antiquities of that Most Ancient Borough ...W. Keymer, 1803 - 4 pagine |
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Pagina 53 - This Duchess was a wise, witty, and learned lady, which her many Bookes do well testify : she was a most virtuous, and loving and careful wife, and was with her lord all the time of his banishment and miseries, and when he came home, never parted from him in his solitary retirements.
Pagina 52 - Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Pagina 84 - This brood and other oysters they carry to creeks of the sea, at Brickel Sea, Mersey, Langno, Fingrego, Wivenho, Tolesbnry, and Saltcoase, and there throw them into the channel, Which they call their beds or layers, where they grow and fatten, and in two or three years the smallest brood will be oysters of the size aforesaid.
Pagina 189 - IMP. CAES. NERVAE TRAIANO AVG. GER. DAC. PM TR. P. COS. VPP Son buste lauré à droite.
Pagina 51 - ... were interred the remains of Sir George Lisle; the fate of these lamented friends is thus recorded: " UNDER THIS MARBLE LY THE BODIES OF THE TWO MOST VALIANT CAPTAINS, SR. CHARLES LVCAS, AND SR. GEORGE LISLE, K.NTS. WHO FOR THEIR EMINENT LOYALTY TO THEIR SOVERAIN, WERE ON THE 28TH DAY OF AVGVST, 1648, BY THE COMMAND OF SR THO. FAIRFAX, THEN GENERAL OF THE PARLIAMENT ARMY, IN COLD BLOVD BARBAROVSLY MVRDERED. " The visitor will not fail to remark, that these letters are cut very deep into the marble:...
Pagina 210 - Britannia sitting on a globe, holding in her right hand an olive branch and in her left a spear and shield...
Pagina 162 - The peculiar construction of these windows, so entirely different from any in modern buildings, is worthy of observation. An arched niche, about three feet deep, formed the inner opening of the window ; in the back of which niche, another of less dimensions, gradually decreasing in breadth, penetrated about seven feet further, at the extremity of which a narrow aperture, only eight inches wide, lined with hewn stone, was made through the remaining thickness of the wall. From the floor of the rooms...
Pagina 52 - This duchefs was a wife, wittr, and learned lady, which her many books do well teftify. She was a moft virtuous and loving and careful wife, and was with her lord all the time...
Pagina 212 - APTGMIAOC. Diana walking to right, holding a bow in her left hand, and an arrow in her right ; at her feet a stag. SIDE. Domitian, 8.
Pagina 221 - ... four bodkins (? hair-pins) of jet. The coffin was cast, or wrought, all over with lozenges, in each of which was an escallop shell. Near it was found an urn, holding about a pint, in which were two coins of large brass, one of Antoninus Pius, and the other of Alexander Severus.