History of the City of Chester, from Its Foundation to the Present Time: With an Account of Its Antiquities, Curiosities, Local Customs, and Peculiar Immunities; and a Concise Political History ...

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J. Fletcher, 1831
 

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Página 32 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Página 276 - ... shall be as good, valid, and effectual in the law to all intents and purposes whatsoever...
Página 273 - ... every person so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 51.
Página 61 - ... it was a general survey of all the lands in the kingdom, their extent in each district, their proprietors, tenures, value ; the quantity of meadow, pasture, wood, and arable land, which they contained; and in some counties, the number of tenants, cottagers, and slaves of all denominations, who lived upon them.
Página 12 - The religion of the Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their government ; and the Druids, who were their priests, possessed great authority among them. Besides ministering at the altar, and directing all religious duties, they presided over the education of youth...
Página 33 - Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 172 - Gentlemen, I presume you very well know, or have heard of, my condition and disposition; and that I neither give nor take quarter. I am now with my Firelocks (who never yet neglected opportunity to correct rebels) ready to use you as I have done the Irish: but loth...
Página 272 - ... which might have been had or gotten for the same respectively at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof; and to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate for the purposes aforesaid, as fully and effectually to all intents...
Página 271 - Charges of making such Distress and Sale, to the Person or Persons whose Goods and Chattels shall have been so distrained and sold.
Página 61 - ... into baronies ; and he conferred these, with the reservation of stated services and payments, on the most considerable of his adventurers. These great barons, who held immediately of the crown, shared out a great part of their lands to other foreigners, who were denominated knights or vassals, and who paid their lord the same duty and submission, in peace and war, which he himself owed to his sovereign. The whole kingdom contained about seven hundred chief tenants, and sixty thousand two hundred...

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