According to the distance travelled from the preceding camp, the seventeenth encampment, or Monacatuca Camp, would be on this farm; but, according to local tradition it was on the William B.
According to local tradition, this farm is the site of the Salt Lick Camp, a view in support of which there is much to be said.
Local tradition, always apt to associate notable deeds with easily marked places, makes the scene of the battle Ockley Green; but the armies could not have seen each other on the low ground, which must have been half swamp, half undergrowth.
According to a local tradition, Jeffreys, when his worthy master King James had fled to France, slunk in disguise to Leatherhead.
One interesting fact, however, is still preserved by local tradition,[434] and that tradition has been amply confirmed by the researches of scholars in our times.
The fame of Mungret, however, seems to be principally founded on local tradition, for we can find no satisfactory evidence to prove its celebrity in any of our ancient documents.
The Emperor, according to local tradition, was cremated on the bank of the Ulan Muren, where he is supposed to have been slain.
At any rate, the writer just referred to, in visiting Corstorphine for the purpose of inspecting both church and village, obtained this piece of local tradition, believed to relate to the church of 1429.
It may be that every chambered mound already opened had long had its real nature foretold by the voice of local tradition.
According to local tradition, the hill upon which Kenilworth Castle is built was once inhabited by fairies, who are remembered by the same characteristics as their kindred elsewhere.
And the builders of the Round Tower of Abernethy, as also the builders of the Round Tower of Brechin, are alleged by local tradition to have been "Pechts.
According to local tradition, he later lived in a log cabin on the old Military Road near the old Ketoctin Baptist Church and on lands afterward owned by Robert Braden.
Later, according to local tradition, another Mason descendant, Colonel John Mason McCarty was living there when he killed his cousin, General A.
Local tradition had it that at time of the Reformation the monks hid in this vault all their church plate and other precious possessions, meaning at the first convenient opportunity to remove them to a place of greater safety.
According to a local tradition, George Fox at one time lived here.
We are told by local tradition or gossip that the tomb at the end of the south aisle is that of King Stephen.
Local tradition has it that it owes its existence, as distinct from Old Alresford, "to a defeat inflicted by the Saxons on a party of Danes near the village of West Tisted about five miles (south) east of Alresford.
Local tradition cannot, at any time, be put lightly aside, and when as here it preserves for us one of the great truths of the early history of modern Europe we should rejoice indeed.
Local tradition tells us that she was wont, with her young charge and her ladies, to visit the poor and take an interest in her gardens.
According to local tradition, Begard was first settled by such ragged hermits that the place was called after them, a settlement of "Beggars.
In a marsh are the ruins of an oratory, where, according to local tradition, Winwaloe as a child practised the ascetic life.
The church is poor and uninteresting, but in the churchyard is a curious cross, with platform from which, according to local tradition, capital sentences were pronounced.
Local tradition at Broadstairs used to point to Fort House, on the cliff by the Coastguard Station, as the holiday residence at which Dickens wrote most of Bleak House.
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