Glamorgan: Being an Outline of Its Geography, History, and AntiquitiesJ.E. Southall, 1907 - 471 ページ |
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Abbey Aberdare ancient barons Barry battle Bishop borough Bridgend Bristol British Briton BRUT Caer Caerlleon Caerphilly called Caratacus Cardiff Castle Castell Coch Cefn century chieftain Church Clare coal Cowbridge Cymry Deheubarth Despenser district Donat's Earl of Gloucester Edward Einion erected famous Fawr feet Fitzhamon Glamorganshire Glyn Glyndwr Gower Gruffydd Gwent Gwrgant Henry hills House Hywel Dda Iestyn Iestyn ab Gwrgant Iolo MSS iron Ivor John Kenfig King knights land Llandaff Llantrisant Llantwit Major Llewelyn Lord lordship of Glamorgan manor Margam Merthyr Tydfil miles monastery Monmouth Monmouthshire Morgan Hen Morganwg mountains Mynydd Neath Nedd neighbourhood Newport Norman Ogwr Owain Glyndwr Owen parish passed Penarth Pontypridd possession Prince Railway recorded reign remains Rhondda Rhymni Rhys ab Tewdwr Richard river Robert Fitzhamon Roman Saxons Senghenydd Silures South Wales stone Stradling Swansea Taff territory tion tower town tumulus Vale valley Welsh Welshman whilst William Ystrad
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323 ページ - ... thought good that a plain declaration should be made of the premises as well to the Lords spiritual and temporal as to other his loving subjects the Commons in this present Parliament assembled; whereupon the said Lords and Commons by a great deliberation finally be resolved that it is and shall be much more to the pleasure of Almighty God and for the honour of this his realm that the possessions of such...
309 ページ - I will not contend. And to inform you fully of all that has been done, I send you a person worthy of credit therein, my faithful servant the bearer of this letter, who was at the engagement, and performed his duty well, as he has always done. And such amends has God ordained you for the burning of four houses in your aforesaid town.
455 ページ - Their fashion and posture is this : there is a vast unwrought stone, probably about twenty tons in weight, supported by six or seven others that are not above four feet high, and these are set in a circle, some on end, and some edgewise or sidelong, to bear the great one up. The great one is much diminished of what it has been in bulk, as having five tons, or more, by report, broken off it to make mill-stones : so that I guess the stone originally to have been between twenty-five and thirty tons...
69 ページ - ... The school was held in a room, part of a dwellinghouse ; the room was so small that a great many of the scholars were obliged to go into the room above, which they reached by means of a ladder through a hole in the loft; the room was lighted by one small glazed window, half of which was patched up with boards ; it was altogether a wretched place. The furniture consisted of one table, in a miserable condition, and a few broken benches ; the floor was in a very bad state, there being several large...
238 ページ - Norman conquerors prompted them to inquire into the ancient history of Britain ; they listened with fond credulity to the tale of Arthur, and eagerly applauded the merit of a prince who had triumphed over the Saxons, their common enemies. His romance, transcribed in the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth, and afterwards translated into the fashionable idiom of the times, was enriched with the various, though incoherent, ornaments, which were familiar to the experience, the learning, or the fancy, of the...
48 ページ - Upon which, an able fire-man, that well understood the nature of iron, was made choice of to accompany me ; and being fitted with an ingenious interpreter that well understood the language, and that had dealt much in that commodity, we marched first for Hamburgh, then to Leipsic, and from thence to Dresden, the Duke of Saxony's court, where we had notice of the place where the plates were made...
329 ページ - ... dominion and country of Wales, being no small part of this • realm, who therefore are utterly destitute of God's holy Word, and do remain in the like or rather more darkness and ignorance than they were in the time of papistry...
77 ページ - Monmouth and elsewhere, to take Degrees in Arts, Science, Law, and Medicine, at the University of Wales (whenever such University shall have been constituted), or at any of the Universities of the United Kingdom ; to give such technical instruction as may be of immediate service in professional and commercial life...
15 ページ - Where she of ancient time had parted as a mound, The Monumethian fields and Glamorganian ground, Intreats the Taff along, as gray as any glass • With whom...
267 ページ - Castle, that he would yield it to him quickly; ' and if not,' said he, ' let not the blood of any of our men be lost, but let this sword and arm of mine, and those of yours, decide who shall call this Castle his own.