 | John Britton - Cathedrals - 1836 - 442 pages
...antiquitie, was likewise defaced ; and such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunke it scalding) that they tooke the dead bodies of Bishops...carkases skarce throughly putrified. The statues of brass, and all the auncient monuments of Kings, benefactors to that goodly Cathedrall Church, went... | |
 | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - Architecture, Gothic - 1836 - 146 pages
...defaced ; and such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunk it scalding), that they took the dead bodies of bishops out of their leaden coffins, and cast abroad the carcases scarce thoroughly putrißed. The statues of brass, and all the antient monuments of kings,... | |
 | John Britton - 1847 - 174 pages
...of religion, and lived there in a poor and exiled condition." Ibid. lead (I would they had drunke it scalding) that they tooke the dead bodies of Bishops...carkases skarce throughly putrified. The statues of brass, and all the auncient monuments of Kings, benefactors to that goodly Cathedrall Church, went... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - Cathedrals - 1872 - 520 pages
...reverence and antiquity, was likewise defaced ; and, such was their thirst after lead, that they took the dead bodies of bishops out of their leaden coffins and cast them abroad. The statues of brass and all the ancient monuments of kings went to an alderman of London... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - Great Britain - 1880 - 418 pages
...likewise defaced, and such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunk it scalding) that they took the dead bodies of bishops out of their leaden coffins, and cast abroad the carcases scarce thoroughly putrified." — " Brief View of the State of the Church of England," p.... | |
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Lady, late repayred by Stillington, a place of great reverence and antiquitie, was likewise defaced ; and such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunke it scalding) that they tooke the dead bodies of Bishops out of their leaden coffins, and... 