...hands of the military religious orders or split up into large feudal estates. The great discoveries at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries largely checked the natural increase of population. Not only did the bulk of the young men gladly volunteer...

...forest of Drumsheugh, full in David I.'s time of hartis, hyuds, toddis, and sic like manner of bests." In the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, much of the old wood disappeared, going mainly to form the projecting fronts of the High Street and...

...Lord Lion King at Arins.+ —WALTER SCOTT. Writers of lesser note during this same period (covering the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries) were Alexander Barclay (died 1552), whose "Ship of Fools" gained him some credit in its day; and Stephen...

...high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe in the age of Pope Leo X. characterizes the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth, centuries. The arts of painting and sculpture were buried in the West under the ruins of the Roman empire. They...

...of his treatise by citations from slightly anterior adepts. On the whole, it is safe to place him at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. He had probably passed the prime of life when he entered upon his labours in literature, and a whole...

...perhaps, in the light it throws on the condition of epigraphic studies in seventeenth-century England. The end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries was a busy time of epigraphical research in many countries. It was so especially in England, which...

...the cessation, of church-building in the nations of Northern Europe. In Rome it was quite different: the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries saw the wealth and power of the Papacy at its very acme, and, filled with pride and courage, the enormously...

...class of statuettes representing Vice as a nude woman accompanied by Death. Most of them date from the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. GERMANY A Chronological List of DUrer's 'Works. — A very useful list of DUrer's works, iu chronological...

...and that what we see now is a second tower, part of a second church, chapter house, and hall erected in the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, and that this is the true reason why the buildings are so ornamental in design and construction. We...

...since the great geographical voyages associated with the names of Columbus, Da Gama, and Magellan, at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. It is not my intention on this occasion to attempt anything like a general review of the present state...