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Common terms and phrasesAbbot acres aforesaid aged anno Barnes Hall Bolsterstone Bradfield brother buried called Carr chancel chantry chapel Chapeltown charity churchwardens connexion County Cowley Creswick Curate daughter deponent Dicconson died Ditto Dodsworth Earl of Shrewsbury Ecclesfield Ecclesfield Church Edward eldest Elizabeth feoffees Francis gent George Gilbert Dicconson Grange Greaves Green Grenoside gules Hallamshire hamlet hath heir Henry Hobson Howsley iiijd James John John Parkin Joseph King lands late Lord Lovetot manor married Mary mentioned messuage Midhope monastery monks Mortomley Mounteney Nicholas Oughtibridge paid parish parish of Ecclesfield Parkin persons poor pounds present priory quod Ralph Rawson rent Richard Robert Rotherham Sheffield Shercliffe shillings Shirecliffe Shiregreen Smith Stannington stone succeeded Thomas Creswick Thos trustees tyme Ughill Vicar Vicar of Ecclesfield Vicarage viijd vnto Wadsley Wandrille Wardsend Whitley Hall wife William Wombwell Wood Wortley York Popular passagesPage 239 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Page 253 - When thy last look, ere thought and feeling fled, A mingled gleam of hope and triumph shed; What to thy soul its glad assurance gave, Its hope in death, its triumph o'er the grave ? The sweet Remembrance of unblemish'd youth, The still inspiring voice of Innocence and Truth ! Hail, MEMORY, hail! Page 193 - II. That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy... Page 251 - Our life is but a Winter's day — Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day : Who goes the soonest has the least to pay. Page 260 - Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes. Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore. Page 170 - Then when this is set abroche, well is he that can gete the soonest to it, and spend the most at it. In this kinde of practice they continue sixe weekes, a quarter of a yeare, yea, halfe a yeare together. That money, they say, is to repaire their churches and chappels with, to buy bookes for service, cuppes for the celebration of the Sacrament, surplesses for sir John, and such other necessaries. And they maintaine other extraordinarie charges in their parish besides. Page 105 - Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil. Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; Till they perish and they suffer - some... Page 262 - He sette not his benefice to hire, And lette his shepe acombred in the mire, And ran unto London, unto Seint Poules, To seken him a chanterie for soules, Or with a brotherhede to be withold : But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, .But in his teching discrete and benigne. Page 267 - Christ, and by devising and phantasying vain opinions of purgatory and masses satisfactory to be done for them which be departed, the which doctrine and vain opinion by nothing more is maintained and upholden, than by the abuse of trentals, chantries, and other provisions made for the continuance of the said blindness and ignorance... Bibliographic information |