 A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Page 3801829Full view - About this book
 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 286 pages
...superstitious mansions, reserved of the library books, some to serve their jacks, some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocer and soapseller ; and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, — not in small numbers,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library-books, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub...grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full, to t/te wondering... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1878 - 592 pages
...'writes, " reserved of these library books, some to scour their candlesticks, some to rub their boots, and some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full. Tea, the Universities are not all... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - History - 1860 - 608 pages
...candlesticks, and to rub their boots; some were sold to grocers and sopesellers,. and some were sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full. A merchant bought two noble libraries for forty shillings." Of the genealogical utility of the monastic... | |
 | Richard Sims - Archives - 1861 - 656 pages
...candlesticks, and to rub their boots; some were sold to grocers, sopesellers, and some sent over the sea to the bookbinders ; not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full. A merchant bought two noble libraries for forty shillings." Fuller says, that " the owners of the monastic... | |
 | John Eadie - Church history - 1862 - 720 pages
...mansions, reserved of those library-books, eome to ecour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boot? ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the book-binders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering... | |
 | 1864 - 190 pages
...mansions, reserved those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers...not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of foreign nations. Yea, the Universities of this realm are not all clear in this... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1869 - 620 pages
...that "a great number of those who purchased these superstitious mansions, reserved the library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks,...bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times whole ships-full. I know a merchant, who shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two... | |
 | John Henry Blunt - Reformation - 1868 - 606 pages
...those library-books some to serve their jakes, some to scour CHAP VI Whole libraries wantonly wasted their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some...they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full. Yea, the universities of this realm are not all clear in this... | |
 | James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 206 pages
...them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those Library Books some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they...grocers and soap-sellers ; and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but, at times, whole shipfulls, to the wondering... | |
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