Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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Σελίδα 57
... knight- hood , as the term is now understood , or a frater- nity of military men , who made the redressing of wrong the ... knights evidently associated , and increased their numbers , for the sole pur- pose of oppression and usurpation ...
... knight- hood , as the term is now understood , or a frater- nity of military men , who made the redressing of wrong the ... knights evidently associated , and increased their numbers , for the sole pur- pose of oppression and usurpation ...
Σελίδα 58
... knight by the prince , earl , or baron , with whom the party had passed his seven or eight years of probation ; the ... knights and ladies , who put on his various pieces of armour , and finally the sword : the prince , or baron , then ...
... knight by the prince , earl , or baron , with whom the party had passed his seven or eight years of probation ; the ... knights and ladies , who put on his various pieces of armour , and finally the sword : the prince , or baron , then ...
Σελίδα 59
... knight : be thou brave , hardy , and loyal . " The knight was immediately assisted to rise ; and having received his helmet ... knights who did the profession honour , and li- terally fulfilled their vows to protect the innocent , Hence ...
... knight : be thou brave , hardy , and loyal . " The knight was immediately assisted to rise ; and having received his helmet ... knights who did the profession honour , and li- terally fulfilled their vows to protect the innocent , Hence ...
Σελίδα 73
... knight's fee , was to be pro- vided with an habergeon or coat of mail , a hel- met , a shield , and lance ; and every knight to have a complete suit of the above description , for each knight's fee in his demesne . A layman , free ...
... knight's fee , was to be pro- vided with an habergeon or coat of mail , a hel- met , a shield , and lance ; and every knight to have a complete suit of the above description , for each knight's fee in his demesne . A layman , free ...
Σελίδα 80
... great caution ; as we have upon record , in opposition to them , numerous instances of generosity of mind , liberality , cou- rage , and genuine though perhaps mistaken piety . The The whole body of knights swore to promote the peace 80.
... great caution ; as we have upon record , in opposition to them , numerous instances of generosity of mind , liberality , cou- rage , and genuine though perhaps mistaken piety . The The whole body of knights swore to promote the peace 80.
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according amongst antient appear arms attended barons bishop Cæsar called castle cause character church Colonel commanded conduct courage court crown custom declared doth drink duke duke of Gloucester duke of York earl earl marshal Earl of Buckingham Edward Edward VI enemies England English entertained excellent favour France French Froissart gentlemen give habit hand hath Henry Henry VI Henry VIII honour horse justice Justice of Peace king king's kingdom knights lady land laws liberty liveries living London Lord Mayor Lord's Majesty manners master means ment mentioned monarch never nobles observed occasion offenders officers Parliament party peace persons prelate present Prince prisoners punishment queen received reign rendered rich Richard Romans royal Saxons says sermon servants shew silver Sir John subjects supposed sword thereof thing thou tion trained bands troops unto wife William of Malmesbury yeoman
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Σελίδα 220 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 190 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Σελίδα 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Σελίδα 194 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor.
Σελίδα 186 - But London was never so ill as it is now. In times past men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at the door between stock and stock, I cannot tell what to call it, and perish there for hunger: was there ever more unmercifulness in Nebo?
Σελίδα 243 - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
Σελίδα 193 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Σελίδα 230 - Hearing her so much deplored, he made inquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description that no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other ; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment.
Σελίδα 352 - April, in the 17th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
Σελίδα 418 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.