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Pagina 5 - ... votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as a member of the committee.
Pagina 25 - To all the faithful of Christ to whom the present writing shall come, Richard, by the divine permission, abbot of Peterborough and of the Convent of the same place, eternal greeting in the Lord...
Pagina 169 - ... together with a piece of bent iron, which more closely resembles those found strengthening the angles of wooden chests in Roman graves on the banks of the Somme, than anything else we have seen. The accumulation of bones and charcoal prove that the cave was inhabited by man for some considerable time. The interment is clearly of a later date than the occupation, because it is made in the mass of earth, bones, and charcoal, which resulted from the latter. The interval between the two is of doubtful...
Pagina 5 - It is the unique faculty of not only perceiving "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything...
Pagina 68 - ... petitioned the king to interfere in their behalf and to provide a remedy. This result it is the intention of the writ to effect. The king, taking it into his royal consideration that the Prioress and Sisters would instantly and devoutly pray for the health of himself and his dearest consort Johanna during their lives, and for their souls after their deaths, and for the king's dearest consort Maria, deceased, granted their request, by conveying to Walter Grendon, Prior of S.
Pagina 177 - Welser was privy counsellor of Charles V, and so wealthy that, with the family of the Fugger, he lent 1,200,000 florins to the emperor. With the consent of the emperor, he equipped, in 1528, three vessels in Spain, which sailed under * He was Created baron Douro of Wellesley in the county of Somerset, and viscount Wellington of Talavera, and of Wellington, in...
Pagina 39 - by their discretion, or by the discretion of the more part of them, provide and get one honest and discreet person, of good behaviour, name, fame, conversation, and condition, to be a schoolmaster (who shall freely instruct, teach, induce, and bring up, as well in all Godly learning and knowledge as in other manner of learning, all such children and youth as shall be brought to him, to the same intent and purpose, according to the tender wit and capacities of such youth and young children) as...
Pagina 67 - Keeper's 37th Report, App. no. 2, pp. 175-6.) 31 HENRY VI., 1453. At the sitting at Lancaster on Monday next after the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 31 Henry VI., gives a fine for a writ of debt, 28th July, 31 Henry VI. Robert Croke the like for a writ of robbery, same date. 32 HENRY VI., 1454. At the sitting on Monday in the third week of Lent, Katherine, who was the wife of Richard Botiller, of Kirkeland, gives a fine for a writ of dower...
Pagina 88 - ... inheritance hath proved like a moth fretting a garment, and secretly consumed both, or like the eagle that stole a coal from the altar, and thereby set her nest on fire, which consumed both her young eagles, and herself that stole it.
Pagina 171 - On passing down the combe, and ascending the lower of the two ravines, we come to by far the largest cavern with which I am acquainted in the Mendips — that locally known by the name of Goatchurch. Like all the other large caverns in the district, it has its legends. The dwellers in the neighbourhood, who have never cared to explore its recesses, will tell you that a certain dog, put in here, found its way out after many days at Wookey Hole, having lost - all its hair in scrambling through the...

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