A Book of South WalesMethuen & Company, 1905 - 332 sider |
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... land behind it , this extensive tract of country must have been an immense marsh with wide lagoons in it , quite uninhabitable , a very considerable portion of it being several feet below the level of the tide , and consequently always ...
... land behind it , this extensive tract of country must have been an immense marsh with wide lagoons in it , quite uninhabitable , a very considerable portion of it being several feet below the level of the tide , and consequently always ...
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... land deluged would be ruined for five or six years , " and there is no probability that that part of the country will ever be inhabited againe in our age as it was before the flood , howsoever it hath here- tofore been reputed the ...
... land deluged would be ruined for five or six years , " and there is no probability that that part of the country will ever be inhabited againe in our age as it was before the flood , howsoever it hath here- tofore been reputed the ...
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... land . There was another inundation in the eighteenth century , when a portion of the sea wall gave way , but it was not so disastrous as that of 1606 . At Goldcliff in the church is a brass plate set up with an inscription to ...
... land . There was another inundation in the eighteenth century , when a portion of the sea wall gave way , but it was not so disastrous as that of 1606 . At Goldcliff in the church is a brass plate set up with an inscription to ...
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... land . If Arthur had been a holy king and champion of the Church , he might have spoken of him , but as he was nothing of the kind , he passes him over . However , there is enough to show that Arthur actually did exist , and that he ...
... land . If Arthur had been a holy king and champion of the Church , he might have spoken of him , but as he was nothing of the kind , he passes him over . However , there is enough to show that Arthur actually did exist , and that he ...
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... land , held by Norman lords whose great function was to worry the Welsh . The county of Monmouth was formed by the ... lands ; and not being nice in such matters , this he did ; so that in 1535 out of Gwent he con- stituted the English ...
... land , held by Norman lords whose great function was to worry the Welsh . The county of Monmouth was formed by the ... lands ; and not being nice in such matters , this he did ; so that in 1535 out of Gwent he con- stituted the English ...
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