Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Volume 2

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Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1849 - Norfolk (England)
 

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Page 60 - OLIVER CROMWELL. PS If you send such men as Essex hath sent, it will be to little purpose. Be pleased to take care of their march ; and that such may come along with them as will be able to bring...
Page 318 - Danger of being again subverted, have advised and desired us to cause our Letters to be written and directed, for the Counties, To the Coroners of the respective Counties...
Page 325 - ... their legality. But because many persons of less understanding (whom it may be difficult to persuade) will scruple at them, I will add my thoughts to yours, that you may have the fuller argument for convincing them, if I can add anything to what you have not thought of ; ffor, seeing these Oaths are the main thing that ye dissatisfied part of ye University scruple, I think I cannot do the University better service at present than by removing the scruples of as many as have sense enough to be...
Page 56 - ... themselves, but to serve their country) are willing to venture their lives, and to purchase to themselves the displeasure of bad men, that they may do a public benefit. I undertake not to justify all Captain Margery's actions, but his own conscience knows whether he hath taken the horses of any but malignants, and it were somewhat too hard to put it upon the consciences of your fellow...
Page 241 - Lord, what work was here ! what clattering of glasses ! what beating down of walls ! what tearing up of monuments ! what pulling down of seats ! what wresting out of iron and brass from the windows and graves ! what defacing of arms ! what demolishing of curious stone-work...
Page 13 - ... 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; and further considering and understanding that the alteration, change, and amendment of the same, and converting to good and godly uses, as in erecting of grammar-schools, to the education of youth in virtue and godliness,
Page 284 - Lo, quoth the man to the heraught, hero it is, if ye will buy it, ye shall have time of payment, as first to pay halfe in hand, and the rest by and by. And with much boste he said, he ware not the same since he came last from Sir John Shorne,
Page 286 - Thomas, a poet who flourished in the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
Page 58 - If he be not by you judged a malignant, and that you do not approve of my having of the horse, I shall as willingly return him again as you shall desire, and therefore, I pray you, signify your pleasure to me herein under your hands. Not that I would, for ten thousand horses, have the horse to my own private benefit, saving to make use of him for the Public, for I will most gladly return the value of him to the State.
Page 268 - We can hardly regret, in reflecting on the desolating violence which prevailed, that there should have been some green spots in the wilderness, where the feeble and the persecuted could find refuge. How must this right have enhanced the veneration for religious institutions ! How gladly must the victims of internal warfare have turned their eyes from the baronial castle, the dread and scourge of the neighbourhood, to those venerable walls, within which not even the clamour of arms could be heard,...

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