Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 32

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Sussex Archaeological Society., 1882 - Archaeology

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Page xvii - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 84 - Upon which the merchant came and told me what had passed between them ; and thereby found myself under a necessity of trusting him. But I took no kind of notice of it presently to him ; but thinking it convenient not to let him go home, lest he should be asking advice of his wife, or anybody else, we kept him with us in the inn, and sat up all night drinking beer and taking tobacco with him.
Page 86 - I went to my Lord Wilmot, and telling him my opinion of that ship, proposed to him our going ashore in the little cock-boat, for fear they should prove so, as not knowing but, finding us going into a port of France (there being then a war betwixt France and Spain), they might plunder us, and possibly carry us away and set us ashore in England ; the master also himself had the same opinion of her being an Ostender, and came to me to tell me so, which thought I made it my business to dissuade him from,...
Page 84 - I very kindly let them go again: but (says he) be not troubled at it, for I think I do God and my country good service in preserving the king, and by the grace of God I will venture my life and all for him, and set him safe on shore if I can in France.
Page 84 - But," says he to the merchant, "be not troubled at it, for I think I do God and my country good service in preserving the king, and, by the grace of God, I will venture my life and all for him, and set him safely on shore, if I can, in France.
Page xii - Council or on the requisition in writing of Five Members or of the President or two Vice-Presidents, specifying the subject to be brought forward for consideration at such Meeting, and that subject only shall be then considered.
Page 86 - France, and were afraid of being arrested in England ; that if they would persuade the master (the wind being very fair) to give us a trip over to Dieppe, or one of those ports near Rouen, they would oblige us very much, and with that I gave them twenty shillings to drink. Upon which, they undertook to second me, if I would propose it to the master. So I went to the master, and told him our condition, and that if he would give us a trip over to France, we would give him some consideration for it....
Page 84 - ... and saw there was nobody in the room, he, upon a sudden, kissed my hand that was upon the back of the chair, and said to me, " God bless you wheresoever you go ! I do not doubt, before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife a lady.
Page 105 - In the year 1288, Pope Nicholas the Fourth, to whose predecessors in the see of Rome the first fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices had for a long time been paid, granted the tenths to King Edward...
Page 84 - King ; and after supper he took the merchant aside, and told him " that he had not dealt fairly with him; for though he had given him a very good price for carrying over that gentleman, yet he had not been clear with him; — for," said he, " he is the King, and I very well know him to be so.

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