Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent: With the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained; Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons Have Been Therein Interred. As Also, the Death and Burial of Certain of the Blood-royal, Nobility and Gentry of These Kingdoms, Emtombed in Foreign Nations ...

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W. Tooke, 1767 - England - 608 pages

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Page clxv - For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins...
Page vi - Ana the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 7 So Azariah slept with his fathers ; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David : and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Page 583 - Tomb he found, His Pen hath built it new out of the Ground. 'Twixt Earth and him this Interchange we find. She hath to him, he been to her like kind : She was his Mother, he (a grateful Child) Made her his Theme, in a large Work compil'd Of Funeral Relicks, and brave Structures rear'd On such as seem'd unto her most indear'd. Alternately a Grave to him she lent. O'er which his Book remains a Monument.
Page 355 - ... meat, drink, and lodging, at the dean and chapter's charges, and five shillings in money at his going away, together with a loaf of bread, having the picture of St. Paul upon it, &c.
Page cxxx - Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam noftre confirmationis infringere vel ei aufu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare prefumpferit Indignationem omnipotentis dei...
Page lxxviii - God 1534, no manner of appeals shall be had, provoked, or made out of this realm, or out of any of the King's dominions, to the Bishop of Rome, nor to the See of Rome, in any causes or matters happening to be in contention, and having their commencement and beginning in any of the courts within this realm, or within any...
Page 5 - I little thought on the hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath. Great riches here I did possess, Whereof I made great nobleness ; I had gold, silver, wardrobes, and Great treasures, horses, houses, land. But now a caitiff poor am I, Deep in the ground, lo ! here I lie...
Page 348 - A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Page 146 - And I will that every child be his father's heir, after his father's day. And I will not endure that any man offer any wrong to you. God keep you.
Page clxix - So also the Bishoprics in Wales were founded by the Prince of Wales, and the Principality of Wales was holden of the King of England as of his Crown, and when the Principality of Wales for treason and rebellion was forfeited, the patronages of the Bishoprics then became annexed to the Crown of England.

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