Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, Volume 1;Volume 11

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Charles Vallancey
L. White, 1786
 

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Pagina 282 - SintTruiden, at the end of the eleventh century and the beginning of the twelfth...
Pagina 162 - ... of the Church, took beginning in this manner : When any lord or gentleman had a direction to build a church, he did...
Pagina 177 - Thence will arise villages and towns, which will draw tradesmen and artificers. So as we conceive a hope that these countries in a short time will not only be quiet neighbours to the Pale, but be made as rich and as civil as the Pale itself.
Pagina 122 - ... and thus the portion is quickly paid ; nevertheless, caution is taken from the Bridegroom, on the day of delivery, for restitution of the cattle, in case the Bride die childless within a certain day limited by agreement, and in this case every man's own beast is restored.
Pagina 162 - ... faint or other, whom he chofe to be his patron ; then he founded the church, and called it by the name of that faint, and then gave the land to...
Pagina 170 - The building of a gaol and feflions-houfe was likewife refpited until my lord deputy had refolved of a fit place for a market, and a corporate town. For...
Pagina 169 - And yet the number of freeholders named in this county was above two hundred ; and in this order and method we digefted the bufmefs touching the pofleffions and...
Pagina 153 - When we had delivered the gaol, we impannelled another jury to enquire of the ftate of the church in that county, giving them thefe fpecial articles in charge, viz.
Pagina 114 - ... no man whatever can escape a nickname who lives among them, or converseth with them ; and sometimes so libidinous are they in this kind of raillery, they will give nicknames per antiphrasim, or contrariety of speech. Thus a man of excellent parts, and beloved of all men, shall be called grana, that is, naughty or fit to be complained of; if a man have a beautiful countenance, or lovely eyes, they will call him Cuiegh, that is, squint-eyed ; if a great house-keeper, he shall be called Ackerisagh,...
Pagina 116 - Thisarifeth thro' that great care and concern every man hath left he mould be over-reached by his neighbour ; and they will take upon them to be judges to an extreme nicety of the quality and quantity of each rood of ground ; and, to make fure work, will bring their ropes to meafure, as formally as a furveyor his chains. Their manner of divifion is thus, To each plough they reckon a certain number of acres, which by a general name is called a...

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