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Page 458 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Page 234 - THIS STONE COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL, AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME, FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT, THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE RUGBY GAME AD 1823 This establishment of the running or Rugby game, as contrasted with the earlier, kicking game, had several important results.
Page 303 - The library is one of the six that enjoy a right to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom.
Page 222 - THE Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 were alike the result of hard struggle between the middleclass manufacturing interests and the landlords.
Page 278 - The Horseshoe Cloisters, built by Edward IV in the shape of a fetterlock, one of the royal badges, have been restored by Sir GG Scott. At their NW angle stands the Curfew or Bell Tower (see above), which was built by Henry III and is thus one of the oldest existing parts of the castle. It contains a peal of bells and a 13th cent, dungeon, but the tradition that Anne Boleyn was imprisoned here is apocryphal.
Page 241 - converted a rude and inconsiderable Manufactory into an elegant Art and an important part of National Commerce.
Page 236 - He expatiated in praise of Lichfield and its inhabitants, who, he said, were ' the most sober, decent people in England, the genteelest in proportion to their wealth, and spoke the purest English.
Page 76 - Southampton. A tablet commemorates the fact that the Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scrope, and Sir Thomas Grey, who were executed for a conspiracy against the life of Henry V. in 1415, are interred here. The Hartley Institution, founded for educational and literary purposes, in the High Street, has an imposing facade in the Italian style.
Page 146 - Cathedral, one of the smaller but certainly one of the most beautiful of English cathedrals, is complete in all its parts and is " the best example to be found in the whole world of a secular church, with its subordinate buildings
Page 12 - Eanswith (mainly EE, with a Perp. tower), largely rebuilt since its foundation in 1137 on the site of the former nunnery church of St. Eanswith (dating from 1095). The Harvey Aisle (added in 1874), and the W. window, presented by over 3000 medical men, as well as a statue (1881) on the Leas, commemorate William Harvey (15781657). discoverer of the circulation of the blood, who was born at Folkestone. Beyond the church, extending down to the harbour, is the old fishing-town, with its picturesque and...