The History of the Town and Parish of Halifax: Containing a Description of the Town, the Nature of the Soil, &c. &c. &c.; an Account of the Gentry and Other Eminent Persons Born in the Said Town, and the Liberties Thereof, Also, Its Antient Customs, and Modern Improvements; Also, the Unparalleled Tragedies Committed by Sir John Eland of Eland, and His Grand Antagonists; with a Full Account of the Lives and Deaths of Wilkin Lockwood, and Adam Beaumont, Esquires; Also, a Catalogue of the Several Vicars of Halifax Church, with the Time of Their Institution and Death

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J. Milner, 1789 - 1298 sider
 

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Side 181 - Although express Mention of the true yearly Value or Certainty of the Premises, or any of them, or of any other Gifts or Grants, by Us or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors, to the aforesaid Sir Thomas Gates, Knt.
Side 181 - Reftraint, to the contrary hereof had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other Thing, Caufe, or Matter, whatfoever, in any wife notwithftanding.
Side 41 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.
Side 162 - France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come Greeting.
Side 522 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, that it fhall and may be lawful, to and for the bifhop of the diocefe, or other proper ordinary, to re-cite any perfon or perfons...
Side 397 - Pence half-peny, he shal after three Market Days, or Meeting Days, within the Town of Halifax, next after such his Apprehension, and being condemn'd, be taken to the Gibbet, and there have his Head cut off from his Body. Immediately after the Apprehension, the Felon is brought to the Lord's Bailiff in Halifax, who by Virtue of the Authority granted unto him by the Lord of the Manor of Wakefield, under the particular Seal appertaining to that Manor, keeps a common Jail in the said Town, and therein...
Side 599 - God one thousand sixe hundred thirty and fower and in the tenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland Fraunee and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Side 97 - Resumes the delegated power he gave, Rewards the faithful, and restores the brave. Whom shall the Muse from out the shining throng, Select, to heighten and adorn her song ? Thee, Halifax. To thy capacious mind, O man approv'd, is Britain's wealth consign'd.
Side 181 - York, heretofore made in thefe prefents, is not made, or any ftatute, act, ordinance, provifion, proclamation, or reftraint to the contrary thereof heretofore had, made, ordained, or provided, or any other thing...
Side 333 - ... of Nature, to deduce the evidences for the being and attributes of God, and the general truths of natural religion. Secondly, Laying down all thefe as a new foundation whereon to build the evidences for revealed religion. Thirdly, to inquire into the rule of life, and the particular applications of it, which...

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