 | Christian art and symbolism - 1851 - 422 pages
...Christ began to preach His Holy Name in this desolate place, then overspread with brakes and woods. I forbear to speak of his cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that Church"." 8. Hreaca, F., c. 550. One of the... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1857 - 300 pages
...credit, if it be true. Historians write, that in foreign countries they cause red deer to draw, and milk their hinds : of which Giraldus maketh no wonder,...than which you shall see few fairer of one roof." In EDWARD the Confessors days, this town and manor were the King's demesne. After the conquest, "William... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...but avoucheth, that he had seen the same often used in Wales, where he did eat cheese made of hinds' milk. I forbear to speak of his cow, his staff, his...than which, you shall see few fairer of one roof."] TURKISH GUK IN ST. JAMES'S PARK. — I have referred in vain to Cunningham's Handbook, Brayley's Londiniana,... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1863 - 478 pages
...ch. is a problem for the archaeologist. " I forbear," says Lelaud (Itiu.) " to speak of S. Branock 's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that ch." This has long perished. On the coast,... | |
 | William Benham - Religion - 1887 - 1176 pages
...Somersetshire. He is commemorated on January 7th. The antiquary, Leland writes in the reign of Henry VIII., " I forbear to speak of his cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of ' Bramtou ' Church." Brasenose College. [OXFORD,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Devon (England) - 1887 - 408 pages
...ch. is a problem for the archaeologist. " I forbear," says Leland (Itiu.), "to speak of S. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that ch." This has long perished, and the full... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1892 - 298 pages
...Ibid., 217. BRAUNTON : ST. BRANOCK'S WELL. " I forbear," says Leland (Itin\ " to speak of St. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that church."— Ibid., 256. DORSETSHIRE. CEKNE... | |
 | Robert Charles Hope - England - 1893 - 264 pages
...Ibid., 217. BRAUNTON : ST. BRANOCK's WELL. " I forbear," says Leland (Itin.\ " to speak of St. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that church." — Ibid., 256. DORSETSHIRE. UPWEV... | |
 | John Murray - Devon (England) - 1895 - 434 pages
...curious ch. is 'em for the archaeologist. "I forbear," says Leland (Hin.), " to speak of Si. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that ch." This has long perished, and the full... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Christian saints - 1898 - 460 pages
...by the sow and her little pigs. Leland, in his llinerary, says, " I forbear to speak of S. Branock's cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel, all of which are lively represented in a glass window of that church." This has long perished. Of Abel... | |
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I forbear to speak of his cow, his staff, his oak, his well, and his servant Abel : all which are lively represented in a glass window of that church, than which, you shall see few fairer of one roof."] TURKISH GUK IN ST. 