Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 9Sussex Archaeological Society, 1857 - Archaeology |
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... things previously known , yet several discoveries of an interesting character have marked the interval . Some very curious objects of the primæval period have been found in a barrow at Hove , near Brighton ; among them an amber cup of ...
... things previously known , yet several discoveries of an interesting character have marked the interval . Some very curious objects of the primæval period have been found in a barrow at Hove , near Brighton ; among them an amber cup of ...
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... things on the spot . Agnes Tauke , the prioress , was pro- bably the same person who , thirty - six years earlier , in 1442 , was in Rusper Nunnery , but who had not then taken the veil , " non professa . " 20 She was therefore no ...
... things on the spot . Agnes Tauke , the prioress , was pro- bably the same person who , thirty - six years earlier , in 1442 , was in Rusper Nunnery , but who had not then taken the veil , " non professa . " 20 She was therefore no ...
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... things being at the disposal of God , we intend , by the help of God , actually to visit , both as to the head and its niem bers , you and your aforesaid priory , from certain reasons moving us [ to the29 ] reformation of some defects ...
... things being at the disposal of God , we intend , by the help of God , actually to visit , both as to the head and its niem bers , you and your aforesaid priory , from certain reasons moving us [ to the29 ] reformation of some defects ...
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... things necessary concerning them ready for their repair . " The Lady Cecilia Cradocke , being examined , says that , according to the foundation of the house , the Lady Prioress should give to each sister of the same house annually ...
... things necessary concerning them ready for their repair . " The Lady Cecilia Cradocke , being examined , says that , according to the foundation of the house , the Lady Prioress should give to each sister of the same house annually ...
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... things specified in the writ above written , which she had not yet exhibited , and to render an account as is commanded in the same above , before him , in the Chapter House aforesaid , on the 17th day of the month of October next ...
... things specified in the writ above written , which she had not yet exhibited , and to render an account as is commanded in the same above , before him , in the Chapter House aforesaid , on the 17th day of the month of October next ...
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Page 187 - Profundis, after the Salisbury use, and pray especially for his soul, and for the souls of his father and mother, and for all Christian souls.
Page 361 - ... fine house in it, was yet ambitious to entertain the king (Edward VI.) For that purpose he new painted his gates, with a coat of arms and this motto over them, in large golden letters, OIA VANITAS. Sir Anthony offering to read it, desired to know of the gentleman what he meant by OIA, who told him it stood for omnia.
Page 175 - ... and if any one presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God, and of his blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome in Saint Peter's on the twenty-fourth of February in the second year of our pontificate.
Page 285 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 24 - Commission, exercised on the 26th day of the month of July, in the year of the Lord, at the ninth hour before noon.
Page 6 - Martyr, in the 86th year of the reign of King Edward the Third from the conquest of England.
Page 197 - One day a visitor to the school of observing some deep-coloured stains upon the oaken floor, inquired the cause. He was told that they were occasioned by the leakage of a butt of Madeira, which the master of the grammar school, who had grown lusty, not having had for some time any...
Page 192 - Left off school at 2 o'clock, having heard the spellers and readers a lesson apiece, to attend the cricket match of the gamesters of Mayfield against those of Lindfield and Chailey.
Page 7 - At one nunnery we find the nuns complaining that their house is £20 in debt " and this principally owing to the costly expenses of the prioress, because she frequently rides abroad and pretends that she does so on the common business of the house although it is not so, with a train of attendants much too large and tarries too long abroad and she feasts sumptuously, both when abroad and at home and she is very choice in her dress, so that the fur ,, trimmings of her mantle are worth...
Page 29 - Houses do rather choose to rove abroad in apostacy, than to conform themselves to the observation of good religion ; so that without such small Houses be utterly suppressed, and the religious persons therein committed to great and honourable Monasteries of religion in this realm where they may be compelled to live religiously, for reformation of their lives, the same else be no redress nor reformation in that behalf.