 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Richard Watson Dixon - Great Britain - 1881 - 624 pages
...just lamentation is well known through Fuller (Abbeys, 335). The successors of the monks, he says, " reserved of those library books, some to serve their...rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the book-binders, not in small numbers, but at times whole... | |
 | 1882 - 586 pages
...says : ' A number of those persons who bought the monasteries reserved the [library books thereof — some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, Dot in small numbers, but at times... | |
 | Belgravia - 1882 - 716 pages
...says: ' A number of those persons who bought the monasteries reserved the [library books thereof — some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but at times... | |
 | Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library-books, some to serve the jokes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to 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 Robert Macquoid - 1883 - 80 pages
...says : " A number of those persons who bought the monasteries reserved the library books thereof — some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over the sea to the bookbinders, not in small numbers, but, at times,... | |
 | John Earle - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1884 - 284 pages
...says that those who purchased the monasteries reserved the books, some to scour their candlesticks, some to rub their boots, some they sold to the grocers and soap-sellers, and some they sent over sea to the book-binders,3 not in small numbers; 1 " Palseographia... | |
 | Sir D'Arcy Power - Guilds - 1886 - 480 pages
...regarded. A number of them, which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those Library-books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks,...rub their boots; some they sold to the Grocers and Sope sellers, and some they sent over sea to the Book binders, not in small number, but at times whole... | |
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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... 
