Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...

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Society, 1877
Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes.
 

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Página 106 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 107 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Página 37 - Under this stone lies Richard Mather, Who had a son greater than his father, And eke a grandson greater than either.
Página 168 - And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Página 106 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 39 - Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744 ; and is entitled, ' The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments ; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England.
Página 99 - English words, — probably identical with those in the district from which the ancestral people came. This Glossary is supposed to have been made out about the middle of last century, but the people retained their peculiar manners and customs for at least 75 years after, or down to the end of the first quarter of the present century.
Página 5 - Inscriptions are commonly dug up that this hobbling rhyme of the Inhabitants does not seem to be altogether groundless : — It is written upon a wall in Rome Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendom.
Página 13 - Directory for the year 1766, containing an alpha" betical list of the Merchants, Tradesmen, and principal " inhabitants of the Town of Liverpool, with their respective " addresses, also separate lists of the Council, &c.— Printed " by W. Nevett and Co., for J. Gore, bookseller, near the "Exchange, 1766." The pamphlet contains forty pages, of which the names occupy twenty-nine and a half. The original edition is extremely rare, but a reprint has been published and is easily procured. The second...
Página 131 - Oh, he'd find it another guess story, That would bring his bare back to the cat, If his Majesty's honour and glory Was only just told about that. : With a will-ho, &c. Our Chaplain's both holy and godly, And sets us for heaven agog ; Yet to my mind he looks rather oddly When...

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