Liber Estriae; Or, Memorials of the Royal Ville and Parish of Eastry, in the County of Kent

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J.R. Smith, 1870 - Eastry (England) - 244 pages

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Page 204 - We ordain that the archbishops and all bishops within their several dioceses shall procure (as much as in them lieth) that a true note and terrier of all the glebes, lands, meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, and portions of tithes, lying out of their parishes (which belong to any parsonage...
Page 111 - INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
Page 136 - And in the moon athwart the place of tombs, Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men, Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zig-zag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake.
Page 96 - Go ye, fays our blefledLord, into all the World, and preach the Gofpel to every Creature, Mark xvi.
Page 133 - I return: the Lord gave, and the Lord ' hath taken away, blefled be the name of the Lord*.
Page 41 - In the entrance passage (on the right) is a doorway, with a " debased" seventeenth century arch. The hall opens out of this passage, on the left side. Aberffrydlan was for many generations the property of a family of the' name of Pughe, a branch of the great house of Mathavarn, in the same parish.
Page 9 - ... into the name of the place, who held it in the time of King Edward, who was the present possessor, how many hides in the manor, how many...
Page 204 - ... (which belong to any Parfonage, or Vicarage, or rural Prebend) be taken by the view of honeft men in every parifh, by the appointment of the Bifhop, (whereof the Minifter to be one,) and be laid up in the Bifhop's Regiftry, there to be for a perpetual memory thereof.
Page 11 - Bosham, p. 150. coin he took the disguise of a monk, dropped down the Witham to a hermitage in the fens belonging to the Cistercians of Sempringham ; thence by crossroads, and chiefly by night, he found his way to Estrey, about five miles from Deal, a manor belonging to Christ Church in Canterbury. He remained there a week. On All Souls Day he went on board a boat, just before morning, and by the evening reached the coast of Flanders. To avoid observation he landed on the open shore near Gravelines....
Page 170 - What is a Church ?" Our honest sexton tells, " 'Tis a tall building with a tower and bells ; Where priest and clerk, with joint exertion strive To keep the ardour of their flock alive ; That, — by his periods eloquent and grave ; This, — by responses and a well-set stave ; These for the living ; but when life be fled, I toll myself the requiem for the dead.

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