Lean's Collectanea (Volume
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153390309
Paperback|9781153390309
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...the elder Matthews in a letter addressed to his son at Mold.--Memoirs of Charles Matthews., 5o4. Snowdon. Craig Eriry will yield sufficient pasture for all the cattle of Wales put together.--F. W. DENBIGHSHIRE. He is become a Clough. Sir Richard Clough (temp. Eliz.), a native of Denbighshire, raised himself from a poor boy to the highest eminence as a British merchant. He was a friend of Sir Thomas Gresham. Buried at Hamburg.--Murray. Wrexham. The Metropolis of North Wales.--A. Roberts. See Seven Wonders. FLINTSHIRE. Harden Jews. The story goes that the inhabitants of Hawarden (Flintshire), in 946, having prayed ineffectually to the Virgin in a time of drought, tried her and sentenced her to death by drowning, and so cast her image into the sea, from whence it was cast up at Chester. Hence the rhyme: "The Jews their God did crucify, The Hardners theirs did drown," Sec.' whether this is not a play on the word hard: "Harder of belief than Jews" occurs in Taylors Merry Wherry Voyage as a proverbial expression. Haordine was the original spelling.--Egerton Leigh, Ballads of Cheshire, p. 3o4, n. Holt lions 5 m. N.E. of Wrexham. So called by their Cheshire neighbours. (It is opposite Farndon.)--Haz., 2d Ed. A Border taunt. Hope. I ll live in Hope if I live in Caergwrle. The Hope mountain and village is near Wrexham, Caergwrle being the station and a hamlet in the parish of Hope.--A. Roberts. Mold. Were I to curse the man I hate From youth till I grow old, Oh might he be condemned by fate To waste his days in Mold. Pretty Mold, proud people, handsome church without a steeple.--A. Roberts. 176o. GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Garden of Wales.--F. W. Caerphilly. Its gone to Caerphilly. Said of anything irrecoverably lost, owing to the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153390309 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153390302 |
| Weight | 1.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.07 In |
| List Price | $28.20 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 482 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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