The History and Antiquities of Boston: And the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln |
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Abbey Abbot acres of land alderman ancient annual annum appears appointed assessed Benington borough Boston Botolph bridge Butterwick called chancel chapel chaplain charter church Corporation Records Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Guild Cotton county of Lincoln Croyland daughter died drain Earl East Fen Edward Edward III England erected feet Fishtoft formerly Freiston Friskney granted held Henry VIII Holland honour of Richmond Hundred Rolls Ibid inhabitants Inquis Irby King King's Kirton knight Kyme Lane Leake Leverton Lincolnshire London Lord manor married Mary Mayor mentioned merchants messuage neighbourhood obit paid parish Parliament pasture persons present probably Ralph rector reign rent repairs Richard river Robert Rochford Roman says side Sir Anthony Irby Skirbeck Sleaford sluice Spalding stone STUKELEY Subsidy Rolls Swineshead tenements Thomas Tilney Toft tower town Valor Ecclesiasticus vicar Wainfleet wapentake wife William window Witham Wrangle Wyberton
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Page 427 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient and the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 47 - Edward the First for six years, towards defraying the expense of an expedition to the Holy Land; and, that they might be collected to their full value, a taxation by the king's precept was begun in that year, and finished...
Page 423 - If it do make men hypocrites, yet better be hypocrites than profane persons. Hypocrites give God part of his due, the outward man, but the profane person giveth God neither outward nor inward man. You know not, if you think we came into this wilderness to practise those courses here which we fled from in England.
Page 417 - Of all men in the world, I envy Mr. Cotton of Boston most, for he doth nothing in way of conformity, and yet hath his liberty ; and I do everything that way, and cannot enjoy mine.
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