Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division ... |
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abbey Abbot altar altered ancient angles apse arcade Archæological Archbishop Berkeley Bishop Bishop of Worcester brackets Bristol canons canopies Canterbury Cantilupe capitals central tower century chantry chapel chapter-house character choir Chronicle church clerestory cloister colour consecrated crypt Dean Decorated Decorated period died diocese doorway Early English east end east window eastern Edward Edward II effigy England enriched episcopal erected figures filled foliage GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Godwin groined Henry HEREFORD CATHEDRAL interred JOHN King Lady-chapel leafage Lichfield LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL lierne Mercia monastery monks monument mouldings nave niches Norman arch north side north transept noticed original ornament Oxford panelling Perpendicular window piers PLATE porch portion presbytery Professor Willis recess remains reredos restored rich Richard roof screen sculpture shafts shrine south aisle south choir-aisle south side spandrils stained glass stone THOMAS Thomas Cantilupe tomb tracery trans transition Norman translated triforium upper vaulting vaulting-shafts west front WILLIAM Worcester Cathedral Wulfstan
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Page 251 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, 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, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 250 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 250 - 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. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Page 57 - ... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits were too eager to be always cautious.
Page 255 - Trinity," in answer to some parts of Locke'a Essay. [AD 1699 — 1717.] WILLIAM LLOYD, translated from Lichfield. In 1680 he had been consecrated to the see of St. Asaph, and was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower by James II. He...
Page 256 - Puritans," under the title of, " A Vindication of the Government, Doctrine, and Worship of the Church of England, established in the reign of queen Elizabeth :" of which the late bishop Hallifax said, " a better vindication of the reformed church of England, I never read.
Page 56 - The Divine Legation of Moses," and "Julian," a discourse concerning the earthquake and fiery eruption which defeated the Emperor's attempt to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. The entire list of his works is a long one, and his literary life belongs too completely to the literary history of the century to be further noticed here. "He was a man,
Page 264 - Lichfield enjoyed a sad pre-eminence during the civil war, — "... when fanatic Brooke The fair cathedral spoiled and took ; Though thanks to heaven and good St. Chad, A guerdon meet the spoiler had.
Page 57 - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 177 - OTHERS HAD ESTABLISHED THE HISTORICAL AND PROPHETICAL GROUNDS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND THAT SURE TESTIMONY OF ITS TRUTH WHICH IS FOUND IN ITS PERFECT ADAPTATION TO THE HEART OF MAN. IT WAS RESERVED FOR HIM TO DEVELOP ITS ANALOGY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE...