Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Volume 28Sussex Archaeological Society, 1848 - Archaeology |
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Page 133 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 123 - This princess," says Ordericus Vitalis, " who derived her descent from the kings of France and emperors of Germany, was even more distinguished for the purity of her mind and manners than for her illustrious lineage. As a queen she was munificent, and liberal of her gifts. She united beauty with gentle breeding and all the graces of Christian holiness. While the victorious arms of her illustrious spouse subdued...
Page 125 - Tuscan came my lady's worthy race, Fair Florence was sometime her ancient seat, The western isle whose pleasant shore doth face Wild Camber's cliffs did give her lively heat; Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast, Her sire an earl, her dame of princes' blood; From tender years in Britain she doth rest With king's child, where she tasteth costly food.
Page xviii - 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 122 - Domesday [B. vol. i., fo. 1oo] we know that Queen Matilda had conferred upon her the lands of the Saxon noble Brictric (Brihtrik or Bric'trich Mau), the son of Earl Algar. [Intro. Domesd. i. 452.] Thierry mentions her name as the first inscribed on the partition roll of the territory of England, receiving as her portion this same Saxon's lands. It is recorded of her, that being in love with the young noble in question, when a representative at her father's court from King Edward (the Confessor),...
Page 125 - And the reason is because in the opinion of this people fostering hath always been a stronger alliance than blood, and the foster-children do love and are beloved of their foster-fathers and their sept more than of their own natural parents and kindred, and do participate of their means more frankly, and do adhere unto them in all fortunes with more affection and constancy.
Page xviii - The Accounts of the Society shall be submitted annually to the examination of Two Auditors, who shall be elected at the Annual Meeting from the general body of the Members of the Society. CHURCHWARDENS' PRESENTMENTS (17th Century) Part 1.
Page 115 - ... daughter of Queen Matilda by a former husband, being therein recorded as the Sister of Gherbod, a Fleming to whom the Conqueror had first granted the City and Earldom of Chester, although the assertion is supported by no other chronicler, resting solely on the authority of the historian in question, and notwithstanding that the work is of considerable length, is nowhere again repeated by him. After recapitulating the lands and counties which the Conqueror had portioned out to certain of his Norman...
Page 24 - Orate pro anima Richardi Poure, quondam Sarum Episcopi, qui Ecclesiam hanc inchoari fecit in quodam fundo ubi nunc fundata est ex antiquo nomine Miryfelde in honorem B. Virg. Mariae 3.
Page 116 - It is therefore self-evident from this fact, that Gherbod the Fleming must equally have been Queen Matilda's son, but although sufficient opportunity is afforded to Ordericus he never once mentions him as her son, neither does...