The history and antiquities of the city of NorwichLynn, 1783 - 80 pages |
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Page 140 - ... vestments, both copes and surplices, together with the leaden cross, which had been newly sawn down from over the Greenyard* pulpit, and the...
Page 19 - ... to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the title of Lord Ossulston, Baron of Ossulston.
Page 261 - to make the church a fair and large hall for the mayor and his brethren, with all the citizens to repair unto at a common assembly, &c.
Page 136 - ... use as a spice in English cookery. The ancient fee-favour of the city of Norwich is twenty-four herring pies, each containing five herrings, to be carried to court by the lord of the manor of Carleton ! In 1629 these pies were described as being seasoned with half a pound of ginger, half a pound of pepper, a quarter of a pound of cinnamon, one ounce of cloves, one ounce of long pepper, half an ounce of grains of paradise, and half an ounce of galangals.
Page 195 - I perceived afterwards) would take upon him to defend that every diocesan bishop was pope. I answered him with some scorn, and obtained leave that I might with the least loss and defacing of the windows, give order for taking off that offence, which I did by causing the heads of those pictures to be taken off since I knew the bodies could not offend.
Page 19 - ... in his titles of Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk ; and after the restoration of Charles II., in the year 1661, at the humble petition of James Howard Earl of Suffolk, Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire, William Howard Viscount Stafford, and others, he was restored by Act of Parliament to the title of Duke of Norfolk, to remain to him and the heirs male of his body...
Page 51 - London have had, or have, as they have had them most favourably and freely according to the liberties of London and the laws of the city of Lincoln. Wherefore we will and...
Page 140 - Tofts the sheriff, and Greenwood ; what clattering of glasses, what beating down of walls, what tearing down of monuments, what pulling down of seats, and wresting out of irons and brass from the windows and graves ; what defacing of arms, what demolishing of curious stone-work, that had not any representation in the world, but of the cost of the founder and skill of the mason...
Page 261 - Esq., and to his heirs for ever, to be held in capite, by the twentieth part of a knight's fee, on yielding to his majesty's successors the annual rent of twenty-six shillings. A descendant from this proprietor, leased or sold the estate of Wood Hall to Mr. Grisdale, the ancestor of the present possessor, IS Fisher, Esq., who resides at the mansion. Major Richard Henry...
Page 93 - Monsold, all manner of cattle and provision of victuals, in what place soever they may find the same, so that no violence or injury be done to any honest or poor man ; commanding all persons as they tender the King's honour and royal majesty, and the relief of the Commonwealth, to be obedient to us...