The Antiquities of Arundel: The Peculiar Privilege of Its Castle and Lordship; with an Abstract of the Lives of the Earls of Arundel, from the Conquest to this Time

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224 ページ - Rome (some whereof he could never obtain permission to remove from Rome, though he had paid for them), and had a rare collection of the most curious medals. As to all parts of learning he was almost illiterate, and thought no other part of history so considerable as what related to his own family ; in which, no doubt, there had been some very memorable persons.
18 ページ - ... so that, by their barbarous usage , he died within few days ; to the grief of all that knew him, and of many who knew him not but by his book, and the reputation he had with learned men.
225 ページ - He wore and affected a habit very different from that of the time, such as men had only beheld in the pictures of the most considerable men, all which drew the eyes of most, and the reverence of many, towards him, as the image and representative of the primitive nobility, and native gravity of the nobles, when they had been most venerable...
218 ページ - I cannot," says Peacham, in his Complete Gentleman, " but with much reverence mention the every way Right Honourable Thomas Howard, Lord High Marshall of England, as great for his noble patronage of arts and ancient learning, as for his high birth and place...
225 ページ - ... been most venerable ; but this was only his outside, his nature and true humour being much disposed to levity, and delights which indeed were very despicable and childish. He was rather thought not to be much concerned for religion than to incline to this or that party of any, and had little other affection for the nation, or the kingdom, than as he had a great share in it, in which, like the great leviathan, he might...
18 ページ - ... and animofity againft one another, that, after he had kept them waking, with continual alarms, three or four days, near half the men being fick, and unable to do duty, rather than they would truft each other longer, they gave the place and themfelves up as prifoners of war upon quarter; the place being able to have defended it is retaien itfelf againft all that power, for a much longer time.
152 ページ - Monarch, he had investiture, not only by the -King's girding him with the sword, but by putting on him a cap of fur, under a coronet of gold set with precious stones.
206 ページ - You have lived longer than other men, what have you done more than other men ?' He replied, ' I did penance when I was an hundred years old.
45 ページ - Buckenham, to be held by the service of being chief butler to the Kings of England on the day of their coronation ; and East Hall remained the manor-house
166 ページ - Surrey and his posterity ; viz., to bear on a bend in an escutcheon the upper half of a red lion,* depicted as the arms of Scotland, pierced through the mouth with an arrow. After her marriage with the king, Katharine Howard bore the Flodden augmentation on the third quarter of her...

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