 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 Henry Blunt - Reformation - 1869 - 604 pages
...Sermons, ii. 92 ; i. 267, 159, 246. CHAP their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they VI sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and 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... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Families - 1869 - 428 pages
...candlesticks, and to nib their boots ; some were sold to grocers and soapsellers, 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." Before the dissolution, twenty-nine abbots,... | |
 | Charles Kerry - Abbeys - 1873 - 130 pages
...library books, some to rub their jakes, some to scovr their candlesticks, some to rub their boots, and some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and...in small numbers, but at times, whole ships full. I know a merchantman (which at this time shall be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries... | |
 | George Philip R. Pulman - Axe, River (Dorset-Devon, England) - 1875 - 962 pages
...pillage of the monasteries extended to their libraries. The books were torn up — " some to scour the candlesticks and some to rub their boots ; — some...over sea to the bookbinders, — • not in small lumbers, but at times whole ships full. I know a 1 The Chief Justice thus describes the state of the... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1875 - 400 pages
...to rub their boots, and some they sent to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times, whole ships full. Yes, the universities of this realm are not all clear in this detestable fact. But cursed is the belly... | |
 | Thomas Grognall Didbin - Bibliography - 1876 - 750 pages
...them, which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those librarybooks some to serve the jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some...rub their boots : some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers ; some they sent over sea to the book-binders, not in small number, but at times whole... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1876 - 804 pages
...those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library-books, some to serve the ./''/.-•••, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub...boots : some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers ; some they sent over sea to the book-binders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full,... | |
 | Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland, Catherine Lucy W. Powlett (duchess of Cleveland.) - Abbeys - 1877 - 378 pages
...superstitious mansions, reserved of these library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour the candlesticks, and some to rub their boots; some they sold to the grocer and soap-seller, and some they sent over sea, to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but,... | |
 | Universalism - 1879 - 544 pages
...reserved the books in their libraries, some to scour their candlesticks and some to rub their boots ; and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at limes whole ships full, to the wondering of foreign nations. Yea, the universities of this realm are... | |
 | Richard Watson Dixon - Great Britain - 1881 - 624 pages
...through Fuller (Abbeys, 335). The successors of the monks, he says, " reserved of those library books, some to serve their Jakes, some to scour their candlesticks,...not in small numbers, but at times whole ships full. Yea, the Universities are not all clear in this detestable fact. But cursed is that belly which seeketh... | |
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