Historical and topographical notices of Great Yarmouth ... and its environs, including the parishes and hamlets of the half hundred of Lothingland, in Suffolk

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Page 112 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 267 - There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 70 - In the year 1288, Pope Nicholas the Fourth granted the Tenths to King Edward the First for six years, towards defraying the expense of an Expedition to the Holy Land : and that they might be collected to their full value, a Taxation by the King's Precept was begun in that year, and finished as to the Province of Canterbury in 1291, and as to that of York in the following year ; the whole being under the direction of John, Bishop of Winchester, and Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln. A Third Taxation entitled...
Page 254 - And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were...
Page 267 - ... which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the vail...
Page 73 - Appendixes. 1810 — 20. 2 vols. fol. 1813 — 20. from the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, to execute the Measures recommended by a Select Committee of the House of Commons respecting the Public Records of the Kingdom, &c.
Page 286 - I conceited no less, said the Pope for less than a king he could not be that had so strong a scent; and if his breath be so strong, what is he himself ? Like a great king, like a strong king I will use him, let him be carried back, I say, and my cardinals shall fetch him in with dirge and processions under my canopy.
Page 70 - Eighth ; and because the statutes of Colleges which were founded before the Reformation are also interpreted by this criterion, according to which their benefices, under a certain value, are exempted from the restriction in the statute 21 Henry VIII. concerning pluralities.
Page 65 - Immediately after the passing of the Statute of Gloucester the stated period of the Circuit in Eyre returned, and on the justices going their iter, writs of right and of quo warranto issued very generally against such persons as claimed manors, liberties, &c. where the jurors had previously said before the inquisitors 3 Edward I, 1275, " Nesciunt quo warranto," the parties held or claimed, and again, where they said the party held or claimed
Page 69 - J. desirous of ascertaining what King Edward the Confessor held in Winchester, as of his own demesne, ordered this survey to be made upon the oaths of the burgesses.

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