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Extinction of Wolves in England APPENDIX NO. I. Extract from the Act of Attainder of 301 1st Edward IV., passed in 1461 II. Extract from the Act of Attainder of 308 14th Edward IV., passed in 1475 III. Extract from the Act of Attainder of 309 1st Henry VII., passed in 1485 IV....
“Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave! Burning for blood! bony and gaunt, and grim! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And pouring o’er the country, bear along, Keen...
17. part 2, fo. 178 _a_ [90]. Kingsland Church well merits inspection, as itcontains several objects of interest to an antiquary. It is said to have been erected by one of the Mortimers in the reign of Edward I.—See an account of it in the _Gentleman’s...
7. CHAPTER VI._Edward_.—“Now breathe we, Lords; good fortune bids us pause, And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks. Some troops pursue the bloody-minded Queen; That led calm Henry,...
11. CHAPTER X._Master Gunner_.—“But now thou shalt not. Be thou rul’d by me: Chief Master Gunner am I of this town; Something I must do to procure me grace. The Prince’s espials have informed...
10. CHAPTER IX.“Have we so soon forgot those days of ruin, When York and Lancaster drew forth the battles, When, like a matron butchered by her sons, And cast beside some common way, a spectac...
8. CHAPTER VII.“Then came wandering by A shadow like an angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood; and he shriek’d out aloud, ‘Clarence is come; false fleeting perjured Clarence, That stabb’d m...
2. CHAPTER I.“After him came spurring hard A gentleman almost forspent with speed, That stopp’d by me to breathe his bloodied horse: He ask’d the way to Chester; and of him I did demand, wha...
9. CHAPTER VIII.“Caparison my horse: Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain, And thus my battle shall be ordered. My foreward shall be drawn o...
14. CHAPTER XIII.HANDFORD is a township of the parish of Cheadle, in Cheshire, in the hundred of Macclesfield, intersected by the London and North Western (formerly the Manchester and Birmingham...
13. CHAPTER XII.THE village of Wilmslow is in the hundred of Macclesfield, in Cheshire, and before the introduction of railways, the mail-coach road from Manchester to Birmingham passed through...
3. CHAPTER II.“There Dutton Dutton kills, a Done doth kill a Done, A Booth a Booth, and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown, A Venables against a Venables doth stand, A Troutbeck fighteth with a Tro...
5. CHAPTER IV._Messenger_.—“The Queen, with all the northern Earls and Lords, Intend here to besiege you in your castle: She is hard by with twenty thousand men; And therefore fortify your ho...
6. CHAPTER V.“’Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of. I think it cites us, brother, to the field, That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet, Each one already blazing by our meeds, S...
4. CHAPTER III.“The King from out the town who drew his foot and horse, As willing to give full field-room to his force, Doth pass the river Nen, near where it down doth run, From his first fo...
12. CHAPTER XI.THE ancient family of Wyche, or De la Wyche, was located at a very early period at Davenham, and afterwards removed to Nether Alderley, in Cheshire, where the members of it poss...
15. PART I.LETTER from Richard Brooke, Esq., F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of London, upon the office of Keeper of the Royal Menagerie i...
1. Part 2. The probable period of the 287Extinction of Wolves in England APPENDIX NO. I. Extract from the Act of Attainder of 301 1st Edward IV., passed in 1461 II. Extract from the Act of Attainder of 308 14th Edward...