The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 6Edward Hungerford Goddard Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1860 - Natural history Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. |
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Page 149 - ... unto evensong tyme. This was there exercise every daie. All there pewes or carrells was all fynely wainscotted and verie close, all but the forepart, which had carved wourke that gave light in at ther carrell doures of wainscott. And in every carrell was a deske to lye there bookes on. And the carrells was no greater then from one stanchell of the wyndowe to another.
Page 148 - Pewes or Carrells, where every one of the old Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister, and there studyed upon there books, every one in his carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong tyme.
Page 220 - regular trump," — did not like to 'turn Nose'; But then came a thunder-clap louder than any Of those that preceded, though they were so many ; And hark ! — as its rumblings subside in a hum, What sound mingles too ? — By the hokey — A DRUM...
Page 341 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight...
Page 221 - Sizes, That Matcham confess'd, And made a clean breast To the May'r; but that after he 'd had a night's rest, And the storm had subsided, he " pooh-pooh'd " his friend, Swearing all was a lie from beginning to end; Said "he'd only been drunk— That his spirits had sunk At the thunder — the storm put him into a funk, That, in fact, he had nothing at all on his conscience, And found out, in short, he'd been talking great nonsense.
Page 60 - Aborigines, speake drawling; they are phlegmatique, skins pale and livid, slow and dull, heavy of spirit; hereabout is but little tillage or hard labour, they only milk the cowes and make cheese; they feed chiefly on milke meates, which cooles their braines too much, and hurts their inventions.
Page 75 - They encouraged the circulation by giving twenty-one shillings in farthings for twenty shillings in silver ; by this means many unprincipled persons were induced to purchase them, and would force five, ten, and even twenty shillings' worth of them at a time on all with whom they had dealings. In a short time, not only the City of London, but the whole kingdom, and especially the counties adjacent to the metropolis — Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk — were so burdened with them, that in many...
Page 79 - On the Tokens the initial of the surname is usually placed over those of the Christian names of the husband and wife : though sometimes the wife's initial is at the top, sometimes the three initials are in a line, the middle one being the surname, and at other times the surname is at the bottom . For the convenience of printing, the three initials are placed in one line.
Page 219 - Bill in surprise, (With a brief exclamation, that ended in " eyes,") " What Drummer-boy, Waters ? — the coast is all clear, We haven't got never no Drummer-boy here ! " — " Why, there ! — don't you see How he's following me ? Now this way, now that way, and won't let me be Keep him off, Bill — look here — Don't let him come near ! Only see how the blood-drops his features besmear ! \Vhat, the dead come to life again ! — Bless me ! — Oh dear!