A Topographical, Statistical, & Historical Account of the Borough of Preston in the Hundred of Amounderness, County of Palatine of Lancaster ; Its Antiquities and Modern Improvements, Including a Correct Copy of the Charter Granted in the Reign of Charles II ... a Directory for 1821, with a List of Streets, Courts, Etcsold, 1821 - 347 páginas |
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... late as A. D. 60 . The Brigantes of Preston and its vicinity , were compelled to bend under the authority of their Roman governors , or induced to assi- milate with the invaders ; afterwards the Romans abandoned the country of Sistunii ...
... late as A. D. 60 . The Brigantes of Preston and its vicinity , were compelled to bend under the authority of their Roman governors , or induced to assi- milate with the invaders ; afterwards the Romans abandoned the country of Sistunii ...
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... late Mar- quess was born in 1770 ; in January , 1801 , he was created a Peer of the United Kingdom , as Baron Butler , of Lanthony , in the county of Monmouth . Preston may he said to derive its name from the two Saxon words Prest and ...
... late Mar- quess was born in 1770 ; in January , 1801 , he was created a Peer of the United Kingdom , as Baron Butler , of Lanthony , in the county of Monmouth . Preston may he said to derive its name from the two Saxon words Prest and ...
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... late John Horrocks , Esq . came to reside in the town ; he com- menced the muslin manufacture in a small building near the old work - house , at Syke - hill . His efforts in business were fortunate in an extraordinary degree , so that ...
... late John Horrocks , Esq . came to reside in the town ; he com- menced the muslin manufacture in a small building near the old work - house , at Syke - hill . His efforts in business were fortunate in an extraordinary degree , so that ...
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... late of Penwortham lodge , in the county of Lancaster , Esq . , and representative in parliament for the borough of Preston , died on the 1st day of March , A. D. 1804 , aged 36 years . This monument of mortality was erected , in filial ...
... late of Penwortham lodge , in the county of Lancaster , Esq . , and representative in parliament for the borough of Preston , died on the 1st day of March , A. D. 1804 , aged 36 years . This monument of mortality was erected , in filial ...
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... late been undergoing a cultivation capable of producing almost any vegetable ; still more remains to be done , which in process of time will all be taken in , for general purposes of agriculture . The property arising from this tract of ...
... late been undergoing a cultivation capable of producing almost any vegetable ; still more remains to be done , which in process of time will all be taken in , for general purposes of agriculture . The property arising from this tract of ...
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aforesaid Amounderness ancient argent arms Assheton Avenham azure bailiffs Bart borough of Preston building built burgesses called Catholic chapel charter cheveron Church street cotton court Crest deputy mayor Earl of Derby Edward election elegant entrance erected Esqrs Farington Fishergate following inscription franchises Friargate front Fylde gentlemen George George Yates Goosnargh grand Grimshaw guild mayor guild merchant gules head held Henry Hoghton Hoghton-tower horses house groper inhabitants James John Burgoyne John Horrocks King King's ladies Lancashire Lancaster Lord street Lune street mace bearer Market place Nicholas Grimshaw occasion ornamented papist Parish church parliament Pedder Penwortham persons poet laureat present prison proper rebels reign residence Ribchester Richard Rishton river Ribble roast Robert Robt Roger sable Saxon sermon side Stanley Thomas Thos town clerk town of Preston Town-hall town's sergeant Tulket wall Walton Walton-le-dale Wilfrid William Winckley yard
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Página 94 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 131 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, And by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, Wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Página 189 - What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives: T
Página 138 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Página 92 - It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Página 165 - Church enjoyed peace — it was regarded as a sacred realm by men who, though they hated one another, believed and feared the same God. Abused as it was by the worldly-minded and ambitious, and disgraced by the artifices of the designing and the follies of the fanatic, it afforded a shelter to those who were better than the world in their youth or weary of it in their age. The wise as well as the timid and gentle fled to this Goshen of God, which enjoyed its own light and calm amidst darkness and...
Página 284 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 64 - Paul saith. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Página 135 - I make no scruple to affirm, that if it were the wish and aim of magistrates to effect the destruction present and future of young delinquents, they could not devise a more effectual method, than to confine them so long in our prisons, those seats and seminaries (as they have been very properly called) of idleness and every vice.
Página 38 - Full are thy cities with the sons of Art; And trade, and joy, in every busy street, Mingling are heard; even Drudgery himself, As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews The palace stone, looks gay.