Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, Illustrative of Ancient Manners and the Constitution; Including All the Pedigrees in that Ancient Manuscript. To which are Annexed a Copious History of the Castle and Parish of Berkeley, Consisting of Matter Never Before Published; and Biographical Anecdotes of Dr. Jenner ... |
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Page 166
... Item . First , when I perceived she began to draw from this lyff , I caused .... Prests to say dyvers orisons , and also to shew hir of the passion of Crist , and of the merits of the same , whereunto she gave mervelous goodly wordes ...
... Item . First , when I perceived she began to draw from this lyff , I caused .... Prests to say dyvers orisons , and also to shew hir of the passion of Crist , and of the merits of the same , whereunto she gave mervelous goodly wordes ...
Page 167
... Item . Prests to the nombr of . . . . and more , which went with their crosses next before the hersse [ the horse - litter ] . " Item . After the horse - leter v gyntil women mourners . " Item . Aft them Mr. Recorder and I , Mr. Bonde ...
... Item . Prests to the nombr of . . . . and more , which went with their crosses next before the hersse [ the horse - litter ] . " Item . After the horse - leter v gyntil women mourners . " Item . Aft them Mr. Recorder and I , Mr. Bonde ...
Page 172
... items " commanded by my lady " express . Id . p . 658 . Ready Money , how scarce . — He borrowed £ .1000 to go abroad in the wars to Gascony , and settled ... Item . To appoint the Captayne and Number of the 172 Extracts from Smyth's Lives.
... items " commanded by my lady " express . Id . p . 658 . Ready Money , how scarce . — He borrowed £ .1000 to go abroad in the wars to Gascony , and settled ... Item . To appoint the Captayne and Number of the 172 Extracts from Smyth's Lives.
Page 173
... Item . To appoint the Captayne and Number of the Battle . Item . To appoint the chiefe Capteyn of the Rereward , and what Captaynes and Number shall go with him . Item . The High Marshall for the Army . Item . The Treasorer . Item . The ...
... Item . To appoint the Captayne and Number of the Battle . Item . To appoint the chiefe Capteyn of the Rereward , and what Captaynes and Number shall go with him . Item . The High Marshall for the Army . Item . The Treasorer . Item . The ...
Page 174
... Item . The Campe to be set every day at a convenient houre . Item . The Vowarde to remayne in order of battle untill all the carriages of the same bee come where they shall bee appoynted , and the tents almost set up , and then they of ...
... Item . The Campe to be set every day at a convenient houre . Item . The Vowarde to remayne in order of battle untill all the carriages of the same bee come where they shall bee appoynted , and the tents almost set up , and then they of ...
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Page i - Berkeley Manuscripts. Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys. illustrative of Ancient Manners and the Constitution ; including all the Pedigrees in that Ancient Manuscript. To which are annexed A Copious History of the Castle and Parish of Berkeley, consisting of Matter never before published ; and Biographical Anecdotes of Dr. Jenner, his interviews with the Emperor of Russia, etc.
Page 59 - A hood resembling a monk's cowl, which, at a very early period, it was certainly designed to imitate, covered the head entirely, and fell down over part of the breast and shoulders. It was sometimes decorated with asses...
Page 23 - ... banks were laid under water, and many hundreds of men, women, and children perished in the floods. From the hills might be seen herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, with husbandmen labouring in the fields, all swept away together, and swallowed up in one dreadful inundation. Houses, barns, ricks of corn and hay, were all involved in the common ruin. Many who were rich in the morning were beggars before noon ; and several perished in endeavouring to save their effects. Bristol and Aust suffered...
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