Item, to James Murray, merchant, for fyftene scoir sex elnis and aine half elne of blew claith to be gownis to fyftie ane aigeit men, according to the yeiris of his Majesteis age, at xl s.
Item, for sextene elnis bukrum to the saidis gownis, price of the elne x s.
Janis to be croces thairto, price of theelne xiiij s.
Item, deliverit to him to be the croces thairof iiij elnes half elne quhyte taffites of Janis[121] price the elne xv s.
Zurita, visiting the sees of Gerona and Elne found the gates of Castellon de Ampurias closed against him and one of the guards seized his horse's reins.
The care of the poor, moreover, was to be a special duty, and a rich layman in the diocese of Elne proposed to build for them a hospital with fifty beds, to erect a church, and to distribute garments to the naked.
Archbishop of Narbonne and Bishop of Elne to restrain them from preaching shows that when they attempted to perform the function for which the order had been established they were promptly silenced.
From France where the movement had its origin and culminated at Elne (1207) in the full organization of the "Truce of God," it spread eastward into Germany and Thuringia.
The kings of Spain for a time dominated the city, and during their rule the fortress known to-day as the Fort St. Elne was constructed.
Nevertheless, Elne is a place to be omitted from no man's itinerary in these parts.
Of the past feudal greatness of Elne only a fragmentary rampart and the fortified Portes de Collioure and Perpignan remain.
News of the adventure came to the Bishop of Elne who was also plain Jean Teres, a Catalan and governor of the province; and he caused the unfortunate lady to be brought to the episcopal palace for further care.
Louis XI, when he sought to reduce Roussillon, would have treated Collioure hardly, but so earnest and skilful was its defence that it escaped the indignities thrust upon Elne and Perpignan.
Devastated by the Arabs, we do not hear of a bishop of Elne till 783.
But the great glory of Elne is its cloister raised on a terrace of the ancient acropolis of Illiberis, on the north side of the cathedral.
After that the lordship of Elne was shared between the bishop and the chapter.
Elne occupies a sandstone rock, about which this town is built, and is divided into the upper and the lower town.
Elne were not only really Spanish, but so intimate was the connexion existing between them and places at a greater distance (as e.
Item, for xxxvj elnis and ane quarter blechit bertane canwes to be thre albis, thre ametis, and thre altar towellis to oure Lady Chapell of Laureit, price of theelne iijs.
Item, to be thre croces to the chesabillis and to paill the fruntale, v-1/2 elnis quhite satyne, price of the elne xxxijs.
Already in Pliny's time the glories of the Elne had become tradition.
The great Constantine endeavoured to resuscitate the fallen city, and for a brief space Elne became populous and animated.
To-day Elne is no longer the seat of a bishop, the see of Rousillon having been transferred to Perpignan in the fourteenth century, after having endured from the time of the first bishop, Domnus, since the sixth century.
Formerly the ancient province of Rousillon, in which Elne is situated, and which bordered upon the Spanish frontier, was distinctly Spanish as to manners and customs.
So much so, indeed, that Don Jordy went on ahead as soon as the black mass of Elne hunched itself up against the faint pearl-grey sheet which was hung behind the sand-dunes of Argeles, on the way of the sea.
They crossed the Elne road only a few minutes before the familiars, with the false maid mounted on Don Jordy's white mule, went past peaceably, trekking their way towards Perpignan and the Street of the Money.
The Bishop of Elne held up his hand as if to halt Don Jordy in what he was about to say.
Above him, and somewhat to his left hand, hung a black mass, which was the rock-set town of Elne on its look-out hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
