The Hastings Guide: Or a Description of that Ancient Town and Port, and Its Environs ... To which is Added, Some Account of the Cinque Ports, and a Minute Detail of the Famous Battle of Hastings |
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Abbey againſt alfo alſo Anno appears army Aſhburnham bailiffs Bathing Machines Battle Battle Abbey Beachy Head Beauport befides Bexhill Bishop boats built Caftle Caſtle Chapel Church Cinque Ports cloſe coaft confiderable confifts diſtance Ditto Dover Duke Eaft Earl eaſt Edward Edward III eftates enemy Engliſh extenfive Fairlight fame fecured feems fervices feven feveral fhew fhips fhould fide fince firft firſt fituation fmall fome fouth ftanding ftill ftorm fuch fuffered fummer granted Haftings Harold HASTINGS Henry III hill himſelf Hollington honour honour of Richmond houfe houſe iffued inhabitants Kent King Henry King's land laſt likewife London miles moft moſt muſt Normandy Normans pafs paſs perfon Pevensey PEVENSEY BAY pleaſant prefent purpoſe reign of Richard Richard II Romney ſmall ſpot ſtanding ſtill ſtreets Suffex thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe troops uſed veffels vifit weft weftward weſt whoſe William William the Conqueror Winchelſea wood
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Page 93 - Expell'd, and all the rancour of the blood. Come, my companions, ye who feel the charms Of Nature and the year ; come, let us...
Page 99 - Be it remembered, that in the year of our Lord 1287, in the even of St Agath, the Virgin, was the town of Winchelfea drowned, and all the lands between Climefden and the vocher of Hithe.
Page 38 - Englifh, though defeated, fliewed at leaft as much valour, as thofe by whom they were vanquifhed, but lefs expertnefs in the difcipline and art of war. Yet their worft defect feems to have been the want of a cavalry equal to that of the Normans.
Page 26 - Norman army, never halting till within feven miles of them. On the road he was met by a Monk, who came to propofe to him, on the part of the Duke, to determine their caufe, either by the judgment of Rome, or by duel, in fight of both armies. The...
Page 36 - Harold, they were able, notwithstanding their loss, to maintain the post, and continue the combat. The duke tried the same stratagem a second time with the same success ; but, even after this double advantage, he still found a great body of the English, who, maintaining themselves in firm array...
Page 28 - That, on the contrary, if they remitted in the least their wonted prowess, an enraged enemy hung upon their rear, the sea met them in their retreat, and an ignominious death was the certain punishment of their imprudent cowardice...
Page 84 - King, he took him into his fhip to carry him to the King, who was then at Sandwich, under pretence of making his peace; but Suane, having thus got him into his power, carried him to Dort, in Holland, where he inhumanly murdered him, and caft his body into a deep ditch, covering it with mud. Aldred...
Page 28 - ... and would be decided in a single action ; that never army had greater motives for exerting a vigorous courage, whether they considered the prize which would attend their victory, or the inevitable destruction which...
Page 120 - ... than a mile about. In this church the Conqueror offered up his sword and royal robe, which he wore on the day of his coronation. The monks kept these till...