...In one of these ballads we find the following whimsical enumeration of a company of adventurers. " William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany, With his...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras." But in the municipalities, the tradesmen and merchants preserved some show of freedom, and a sovereign...

...of men and 'their wives, with household accompaniments, such as are recorded in an old ballad: — " William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany With his wife Tiffany And his maide Maupas . * And hisjogge Hardigras." LUc-.-fU ' (. ••• (.<„ ft '•.• But we doubt whether...

...Annunziata, signifying the Annunciation. In connection with this last is the still prettier, sampler name, Ave, a favourite name amongst them. Derived...Gr., sig. bringer of good news), there is a sound of joy -bells ringing; and sweeter still, from moonlit Bethlehem softly echoes the angel's song in the...

...Tiphaine, was in America, whence as the grumbling rhyme of the Englishman, after the Conquest, declared, 'William de Coningsby, Came out of Brittany, With...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras.' Tiffany took up her abode in England and left her progeny, not in great numbers, but sufficient to...

...Tiphaine, was in Armorica, whence aa the grumbling rhyme of the Englishman, after the Conquest, declared, 'William de Coningsby, Came out of Brittany, With...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras.' Tiffany took up her abode in England and left her progeny, not in great numbers, but sufficient to...

...Tiphaine, was in Armorica, whence as the grumbling rhyme of the Englishman, after the Conquest, declared, 'William de Coningsby, Came out of Brittany, With his wife Tiffany, And bis maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras.' Tiflany took up her abode in England and left her progeny,...

...native state and alighting in England, with all his possessions, has been perpetuated in doggrel : — " William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany, With his wife, Tiffany, And his man, Manfras, And his dogge, Hardigras." The mercenaries of Fitz-Aymon, with two exceptions only (his...

...nobility, and possessors of the soil for five hundred years, derided them in such rhymes as these : — "William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany With his...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras." But the laugh proved to be on the side of the new comers, and the Saxon, whether Earl, Thane, Franklin,...

...nobility, and possessors of the soil for five hundred years, derided them in such rhymes as these : " William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany With his...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras." But the laugh proved to be on the side of the new comers, find the Saxon, whether Earl, Thane, Franklin,...

...nobility, and possessors of the soil for five hundred years, derided them in such rhymes as these : " William de Coningsby Came out of Brittany With his...Tiffany, And his maid Manfas, And his dog Hardigras." But the laugh proved to be on the side of the new comers, mid the Saxon, whether Earl, Thane, Franklin,...