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Miss Howden was an Infants' Mistress in one of the slums, and knew well the needs of little children in that wide street, once decked with lordly mansions, which leads from the Castle to Holyrood Palace. Some of the fine houses are left, but the inhabitants are of the poorest, and Miss Howden left her savings to start a Free Kindergarten in the Canongate.
Roger of Howden, who records this bargain, distinguishes between rumour and what he thought was true, and it may be taken as a fair example of what it was believed John would agree to in order to dispossess his imprisoned brother.
As it is, he must have won the hearts of all the regiment by his pluck, and if he is not seriously hurt, it is the very best thing, as it has turned out, that could have happened. If any one gets into a scrape about it, it might lessen the effect of the victory. I think if you call Howden up, and give him a quiet wigging, it will do as well, and won't injure the boys. What do you think?"
It is under the form of chartered towns, not communes, that the importance of the boroughs in English commercial and public life continued to increase in the thirteenth as it had in the twelfth century. Ralph de Diceto, ii, 113. Roger of Howden, iv. 46. Round, The Commune of London. Luchaire, Communes Francaises, 97. Articles of the Barons, c. 32; Stubbs, Select Charters, 393.
Crittenden to Comte de Sartiges, October 22, 1851. See also Pres. Fillmore to Mr. Webster and Mr. Webster's reply. 2 Curtis's "Life of Webster," p. 551. Brit. and For. St. Pap., Vol. XLIV, Lord Howden to Earl Granville, January 9, 1852. Comte de Sartiges to Mr. Webster, April 23, 1852. Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 13, Thirty-second Cong., Second Sess. Mr. Webster to Comte de Sartiges, April 29, 1852. To Mr.
"Deil that they were back at their German kale-yard then, as my neighbour MacCroskie ca's it," said Mrs. Howden, "an that's the way they're gaun to guide us!" "They say for certain," said Miss Damahoy, "that King George flang his periwig in the fire when he heard o' the Porteous mob." "He has done that, they say," replied Saddletree, "for less thing."
He wanted to take a direct share in the talking, and went resolutely ahead now that the chance had come. "No not at all. I knew you'd come to Edinburgh found it out from that chauffeur who was driving you when you and I met at Howden the night before last, and so I came on to find you.
She looked at Lady Eversleigh with flashing eyes, as she remembered that by the subjugation of this empty-headed young nobleman she might attain a higher position and greater wealth than that enjoyed by Sir Oswald's envied wife. "As Lady Sumner Howden, I could look down upon the mistress of Raynham Castle," she thought.
"I am no minister, I never was a minister, and I never will be one" "I didna ken his Grace was ever designed for the ministry," interrupted Mrs. Howden. "He disna mean a minister of the gospel, Mrs.
Fort's Medical Economy during the Middle Ages, p. 345. Dr. Howden, Medical Superintendent of the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, in Journal of Mental Science, 1873. First Signs of Insanity, p. 293. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases, p. 428. The whole of chapter xi. is very pertinent. Dr. R. Jones, in Allbutt's System of Medicine, vol. viii. p. 335 Dr. Hollander, First Signs of Insanity, pp. 64-5.
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