To > which Col. Strode barked: "I come not to hear petitions, but to suppress > insurrections", and considerably roused demanded they leave the town. In > reply, Sir Ralph laid hold of Col. Strode ... and arrested him on suspicion > of treason.
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Venetian embassy to the Mamluk Governor in Damascus in 1511, during the reign of Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri. Workshop of Giovanni Bellini. The reign began as usual with the removal of all Tuman bay's adherents. As dangerous to the throne, they were laid hold of, imprisoned or exiled and their property escheated; while the opposite party were restored to freedom and raised again to power and office.
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In the mythology of Tahiti, Maui was a wise man, or prophet. He was a priest, but was afterwards deified. Being at one time engaged at the marae (sacred place), and the sun getting low while Maui's work was unfinished, he laid hold of the hihi, or sun-rays, and stopped his course for some time. As the discoverer of fire, Maui was named Ao-ao-ma-ra'i-a because he taught the art of obtaining fire by friction of wood.
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In 1021, King Olaf laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovre, and forced them either to receive Christianity or suffer death, if they were not so lucky as to escape. The Pilgrim's Route (Old King's Road) between Oslo and Trondheim in the 16th century passed through the Gudbrandsdal valley. After leaving the valley of the Lågen (downriver from present day Dombås) it passed over the Dovre Mountains into the present-day municipality. The heavy stream of annual pilgrims who visited the shrine of St. Olaf in Trondheim prior to the Reformation resulted in the erection of mountain stations where the pilgrims could find food and shelter.
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The Dublin citizens, to prevent any danger from his approach and by common consent, set fire to Thomas Street. However, the flames laid hold of St. John's church and burned it to the ground, together with all the nearby suburbs. About the commencement of the 18th century, an Augustinian Prior rented for their use as a chapel a stable on the western side of St. John's Tower, a surviving fragment of the Hospital. About 1740, on the site of part of the Hospital, was erected a small church by , which was considerably extended 40 years later.Online book: Dublin: A Historical and Topographical Account of the City, by Samuel A. Ossory Fitzpatrick, 1907 In 1860 it was decided to build a new church.
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Thus, then, these two men betook themselves to their homes, and, as long as it was night, they remained there quietly."Procopius, History of the Wars, Book 1, Chapter 24 "But on the following day at sunrise it became known to the people that both men had quit the palace where they had been staying. So the whole population ran to them, and they declared Hypatius emperor and prepared to lead him to the market-place to assume the power. But the wife of Hypatius, Mary, a discreet woman, who had the greatest reputation for prudence, laid hold of her husband and would not let go, but cried out with loud lamentation and with entreaties to all her kinsmen that the people were leading him on the road to death.
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Then Constantinus, still boiling with anger, made after > him; but Ildiger and Valerian, seeing what was being done, laid hold of his > hands, one of the right and the other of the left, and dragged him back. And > at this point the guards entered whom Belisarius had summoned a moment > before, snatched the dagger of Constantinus from his hand with great > violence, and seized him amid a great uproar. At the moment they did him no > harm, out of respect, I suppose, to the officers present, but led him away > to another room at the command of Belisarius, and at a somewhat later time > put him to death. This was the only unholy deed done by Belisarius, and it > was in no way worthy of the character of the man; for he always shewed great > gentleness in his treatment of all others.
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But Constantinus — for it must needs be that evil befall him — > always lightly evaded the charge and taunted the wronged man. But on one > occasion Presidius met Belisarius riding on horseback in the forum, and he > laid hold of the horse's bridle, and crying out with a loud voice asked > whether the laws of the emperor said that, whenever anyone fleeing from the > barbarians comes to them as a suppliant, they should rob him by violence of > whatever he may chance to have in his hands. And though many men gathered > about and commanded him with threats to let go his hold of the bridle, he > did not let go until at last Belisarius promised to give him the daggers. On > the following day, therefore, Belisarius called Constantinus and many of the > commanders to an apartment in the palace, and after going over what had > happened on the previous day urged him even at that late time to restore the > daggers.
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610 by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury and countersigned by Mellitus, the Bishop of London and Justus, Bishop of Rochester, was sent to the Irish bishops urging them to adopt the Roman method of calculating Easter. According to John of Tinmouth and Capgrave (who mistakenly refer to Tómméne as Terenannus rather than Thomianus), Tómméne heard St. Laurence speaking on the matter and- “He thus laid hold of the truth, and afterwards took a great deal of pains, referable to those matters, in reforming his own people”. The southern part of Ireland accepted the Vatican computation at the Synod of Magh Lene in 630 A.D. However the Northern clergy were followers of the method proposed by Iona and its affiliate churches, known as the Irish Computation. In order to settle the matter Tómméne, with some other Ulster bishops and clergy, sent a letter in the first half of 640 to Pope Severinus setting out both sides of the argument and requesting his advice.
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Another version of the legend states that if someone were to harm a creature living in the Abaia's home, the Abaia would cause a great rain storm flooding the land and drowning those who had caused the harm. One example of this ability is illustrated in the following story: > One day a man discovered a lake in which were many fish, and at the bottom > of the lake lived a magic eel, but the man knew it not. He caught many fish > and returned the next day with the people of his village whom he had told of > his discovery, and they also were very successful, while one woman even laid > hold of the great eel, Abaia, who dwelt in the depths of the lake, though he > escaped her. Now Abaia was angry that his fish had been caught and that he > himself had been seized, so he caused a great rain to fall that night, and > the waters of the lake also rose, and all the people were drowned except an > old woman who had not eaten of the fish and who saved herself in a tree.
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