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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... has been refused);" but he "was best pleased iu the old library, for which my Lord is preparing a new place." Lord Fairfax presented Thoresby with an original letter of Prince Rupert's, and some other choice autographs,--"with the finest medal I have of King Charles the Second, most accurately performed by Simons, the famous artist;" and finally made his visitors stay another night over, when there was "the same pious order, family called in to prayer." The next day, after seeing a stone in which, "when sawn asunder, a cavity had been found fully occupied by a living toad," and a chimneypiece of Yorkshire marble which Thoresby says took a good polish and looked very well, they left Denton,--"My Lord very kindly rode with us part of the way, and showed us four of his oxen, that are the largest, finest beasts that ever I beheld." The Wharfe was so swollen at this time that on their way to Denton they could not ford it; and the delay caused by the state of the roads from the bridge prevented Thoresby from seeing the antiquities of Ilkley, the Roman Olicana. The waters being still out on the Tuesday, they rode through Askwith, and by Mr. Vavasour's of Weston, over the bridge at Otley, where the first things which Thoresby noticed were "the ruins of the Archbishop of York's palace there," and a "modern school." Thoresby then visited the church, with its monuments to the first Lord Fairfax and others, criticisfng "some modern for the Barkers, wherein a slender herald will find the mistake in placing the mother's coat instead of the father's in a lozenge for a maidcu daughter." "We mounted the mighty Cheven, and rode to Rawden, once the seat of an ancient family of that Sirname, of which the famous Sir George Rawden mentioned in my notes in the Only son of Fran...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150586729
- ISBN 13 9781150586729
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages152
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