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Excerpt from A List of Tokens Issued by Wiltshire Tradesmen in the Seventeenth CenturyIt may be remarked, in conclusion, that this list seems to shew, that the different classes of society, now so much amalgamated, were once better distinguished, since we find among these lists of Wiltshire tradesmen scarcely any but the commonest names borne by yeoman families in the county.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

Excerpt from A List of Tokens Issued by Wiltshire Tradesmen in the Seventeenth CenturyIt may be remarked, in conclusion, that this list seems to shew, that the different classes of society, now so much amalgamated, were once better distinguished, since we find among these lists of Wiltshire tradesmen scarcely any but the commonest names borne by yeoman families in the county.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of...

Excerpt from Remains of Pagan SaxondomAlthough it would be difficult to fix the precise time when the Pagan Saxon mode of sepulture ceased in this country, there is yet a very considerable interval during which it must ob viously have prevailed. This period is supposed to extend from the first settlement of the Saxons in Britain down to their final conversion to Christianity, namely, from the middle of the fifth. To the middle or perhaps the e...

Excerpt from Remains of Pagan SaxondomAlthough it would be difficult to fix the precise time when the Pagan Saxon mode of sepulture ceased in this country, there is yet a very considerable interval during which it must ob viously have prevailed. This period is supposed to extend from the first settlement of the Saxons in Britain down to their final conversion to Christianity, namely, from the middle of the fifth. To the middle or perhaps the e...

Excerpt from The Forgeries of Public Money: Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered Before the Numismatic Society, April 23, 1843Now, at the time in question, the public money must have been issued at a certain standard, which, although not so high as that of former reigns, was nevertheless uniform and unvaried, but, in subsequent reigns, and especially in those of Severus and his sons, when more serious reductions in the silver coin were e...

Excerpt from The Forgeries of Public Money: Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered Before the Numismatic Society, April 23, 1843Now, at the time in question, the public money must have been issued at a certain standard, which, although not so high as that of former reigns, was nevertheless uniform and unvaried, but, in subsequent reigns, and especially in those of Severus and his sons, when more serious reductions in the silver coin were e...

Tales of Humour, Gallantry & Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition .Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available toda...

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Excerpt from Spring-Tide or the Angler and His FriendsThe favourable manner in which this little volume has been received by many who never in their lives cast a ¿y, encourages the hope that it contains something besides hints on the art of ingeniously torment ing, and that the plea for the existence of many remains Of an Older tongue in the rural districts of our happy land, may invite the attention and awaken the sym pathy Of those who, in t...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Wiltshire TalesWhatever may be the merit Of these Tales, it will not be denied that they con tain fair examples Of the dialect of North Wiltshire and parts Of Gloucestershire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

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Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, Vol. 9Observations on a Jewelled Coin of the Emperor Maurice. Found at Bacton, near Cromer, in Norfolk, by Seth W. Stevenson, F. S. A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...

Excerpt from A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in WiltshireBearing this bitter sarcasm in lively remem brance, I trust I have not gone too far for derivations m the list of provincial words which follows, and that my anxiety to prove them Will not provoke the censure or the ridicule of the critic and the scholar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgot...