The history and antiquities of ... Reading in Berkshire

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Samuel Reader, 1835
 

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103 ページ - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
72 ページ - I AB do solemnly and sincerely, in the Presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, upon the true Faith of a Christian, That I will never exercise any Power, Authority, or Influence which I may possess by virtue of the Office of to injure or weaken the Protestant Church as it is by Law established in England, or to disturb the said Church, or the Bishops and Clergy of the said Church, in the Possession of any Rights or Privileges to which such Church, or the said Bishops and Clergy, are or may...
98 ページ - In springs King Henry out of a private lobby, where he had placed himself, the invisible spectator of the abbot's behaviour.
190 ページ - If the sacrament of the Lord's Supper be administered as Christ did ordain it, the faithful receivers do, indeed, spiritually and truly eat and drink in it Christ's body and blood.
97 ページ - Henry) ; on which the king laid on lustily, not disgracing one of that place, for whom he was mistaken. Well fare thy heart, quoth the abbot ; and here in a cup of sack, I remember the health of his grace your master. I would give an hundred pounds, on the condition I could feed so heartily on beef, as you do.
97 ページ - King Henry VIII., as he was hunting in Windsor Forest, either casually lost, or (more probably) wilfully losing himself, struck down about dinner time to the Abbey of Reading, where, disguising himself (much, for delight, more for discovery, to see, unseen), he was invited to the abbot's table, and passed for one of the king's guard ; a place to which the proportion of his person might properly entitle him. A sirloin of beef was set before him (so knighted, saith tradition, by this king Henry...
117 ページ - CHAUNTRY, was anciently a church or chapel endowed with lands, or other yearly revenue, for the maintenance of one or more priests, daily saying or singing mass for the souls of the donors, and such others as they appointed.
179 ページ - School, in the County of Kent: — And now, to the end that there may be some certainty appointed, concerning the nominating and electing of these Seven Scholars, whom we will have equal to the others, in all the advantages and privileges of the College; — As often as any place of these Seven shall become void, we will, that within forty days after such vacancy...
138 ページ - Few churches could have received this useful addition before that of St. Lawrence, as the art of making clocks, such as are now in use, was either first invented, or at least, retrieved, in Germany, about two hundred years ago. The first pendulum clock made in England was in the year 1662 ; there is no doubt that the principle of clock work is very ancient...
98 ページ - Tower, kept close prisoner, fed for a short time on bread and water; yet not so empty his body of food, as his mind was filled with fears, creating many suspicions to himself, when and how he had incurred the King's displeasure. At last a...

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