 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 492 páginas
...poets, and in their infcriptions. UPTON. , Aubrey, fpeaking of Corps-candles in' Wales, relates that " when any Chriftian is drowned in the river Dee, there...the body ; and it is therefore called the holy Dee!" Mifcetl. 1696, Ch. xvii. p. 142. TODD. . . nere, They faw it all, and prefent were in place ; Though... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 496 páginas
...inlcriptions. UPToN. . / Aubrey, fpeakmg of Corfis-i-andlis in It'oles, relates t'iat " vvhen any Chriltian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over...where the corps is, a light, by which means they do rind the body ; and it is thereIore cnlled the #<<./y Dee 1" Mijieli. Ui'Xi, Ch. .vrii. p. 1 li?. ToDD.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 504 páginas
...infcriptions. UPTON. Aubrey, fpeaking of Corps-candles in Wales, relates that " when any Chriftiau is drowned. in the river Dee, there will appear over...water, where the corps is, a light, by which means they <lo find the body ; and it is therefore called the holy Duel" Mifcell. lo'9&', Ch. xvii. p. 142. TODD.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 páginas
...Countess of Winchelsea, died. She was then with child."— Ibid. Corps' Candled "WHEN any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over...the body. And it is therefore called the holy Dee." — Ibid. King Arthur's Cave. "ONE of the legends of Arthur's posthumous fame is, that there is in... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 páginas
...theCountess of Winehelsea, died. She was then with child."— Ibid. Corps' Candles.1 "WHEN any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over...the body. And it is therefore called the holy Dee." — Ibid. King Arthur's Care. "ONE of the legends of Arthur's posthumous fame is, that there is in... | |
 | 1852 - 672 páginas
...church-yards, and other articles of Welsh and English superstition. Aubrey tells us, that " when any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over the water where the corpse is a light, by which means they do find the body." The Welsh also to this day believe that the... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 páginas
..." When any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over the water where the corpse is, a light, by which means they do find the body, and it is therefore called the holy Dee." Aubrey, in his " Miscellanies, quotes a letter addressed to Mr. Baxter, referring to the Welsh " corpse-candle... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 336 páginas
...Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over the water where the corpse is, a light, hy which means they do find the body, and it is therefore called the holy Dee." Aubrey, in his " Miscellanies, quotes a letter addressed to Mr. Baxter, referring to the Welsh " corpse-candle... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 páginas
...Eandal Caldicot, who, evidently, lacked not faith in its efficacy. He says, — " When any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over the water where the corpse is, a light, by which means they do find the body, and it is therefore called the holy Dee."... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 332 páginas
...Generglyn, March, 1656." He says, " When any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over where the corps is a light, by which means they do...doctor's father was Mr. Caldicot, of Caldicot, in Cheshire, which lies on the river." In the Cambrian Eegister, 1796, page 431, we read : — " In the... | |
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When any Christian is drowned in the river Dee, there will appear over the water where the corps is, a light, by which means they do find the body: and it is therefore called the Holy Dee. 
