The History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading in Berkshire: With Some Notices of the Most Considerable Places in the Same County

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C. Ingalls, 1835 - 298 ページ
 

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101 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.
70 ページ - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that, in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
114 ページ - Sunday's due Of slumbering in an upper pew. No man's defects sought they to know, So never made themselves a foe. No man's good deeds did they commend, So never raised themselves a friend.
96 ページ - presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. I have been your physician to cure you of your squeasy stomach, and here, as I deserve, I demand my fee for the same.
36 ページ - SKIRMISH ; OR, THE BLOODY IRISH ROUTED BY THE VICTORIOUS DUTCH. " Five hundred papishes came there, To make a final end Of all the town in time of prayer, But God did them defend." To the tune of Lilli borlero. Licensed according to order. Printed for JD in the year 1688. WE came into brave Reading by night, Five hundred horsemen, proper and tall; Yet not resolved fairly to fight, But for to cut the throats of them all. Most of us was Irish Papists, Who vowed to kill, then plunder...
126 ページ - Minstrels, wandering abroad," were included among "rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars," and were adjudged to be punished as such. This Act seems to have put an end to the profession.
95 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...
115 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.
96 ページ - Tower, kept close prisoner, fed for a short time with 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 sirloin of beef was set before him, on which the abbot fed as the farmer of his grange, and verified the proverb that ' Two hungry meals make the third a glutton.' In springs King Henry out of a private lobby where he had placed himself, the invisible spectator...
123 ページ - Majesty, out of Daniel and the Revelations, that four years hence there would be a war of religion; that the King of France would be a Protestant, and fight on their side ; that the Popedom would be destroyed, &c.

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