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" Nottingham, intending to go over the meadows, was prevented by the villagers, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The king, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court soon... "
The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 193
by John Britton, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 917 pages
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A topographical and historical description of the county of Nottingham

Francis Charles Laird - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1813 - 440 pages
...madness, put on for the occasion; and Mr. Throsby relates that this tradition is, that the Cuckoo bush was merely planted to commemorate a trick which the...Goth.amites, hearing of their approach, thought of an expedienfrte turjjiaway his displeasure ; for when the messengers arrived, they'foSnd some of the inhabitants...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 1

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 726 pages
...Nottingham, and intending to go over the meadows, was prevented by the villagers who supposed (as qien of Gotham might,) that the ground over which a king...their proceedings, sent from his court soon after some x>f his officers to enquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill treatment, in order that...
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Curiosities of Great Britain: England & Wales Delineated ..., Volume 6

Thomas Dugdale - Chronology, Historical - 1830 - 266 pages
...prevented by the villagers, who supposed that the. ground over which a king passed must ever after remain a public road. The king, incensed at their proceedings,...from his court, soon after, some of his officers, to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment, in order that he might duly apportion...
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The merry tales of the wise men of Gotham [by A.B.] ed. by J.O. Halliwell

A. B - 1840 - 52 pages
...inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The King, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court, soon afterwards, some of his servants to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill treatment,...
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Saint James's Magazine, and Heraldic and Historical Register, Volume 2

Bernard Burke - Heraldry - 1850 - 630 pages
...the villagers, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was ever after to become a public road. The king incensed at their proceedings sent from his court, soon after, some of his servants to enquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment, that he might punish...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1851 - 554 pages
...inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The king, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court, soon afterwards, some of his servants to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment,...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The king, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court, soon afterwards, some of his servants to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment,...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The king, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court, soon afterwards, some of his servants to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment,...
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Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors

Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - Customary law - 1874 - 512 pages
...villagers, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The King, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his Court soon after some of his servants, to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment, that he might punish...
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Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors

Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - Customary law - 1874 - 492 pages
...villagers, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The King, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his Court soon after some of his servants, to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment, that he might punish...
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