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Page 64 - Still rolling a round sphere of still-returning pain. Hands full of hearty, labours; pains that pay And prize themselves; do much, that more they may, And work for work, not wages; let to-morrow's New drops wash off the sweat of this day's sorrows. A long and daily-dying life, which breathes A respiration of reviving deaths.
Page 33 - November, 1408, a writ of privy seal was issued, which furnishes us with a considerable amount of information as to the legal position of the Sisters. It is clear, from the very terms of their constitution, that they were necessarily subject to the Prior at Clerkenwell in no inconsiderable degree. Bracton, indeed, specially cites them as instances of legal inability of acting apart from the Prior and Head of their Order.* It appears that the Sisters had represented to the king the ancient grant which...
Page 15 - Priory, and also to prorogue the matter affecting the same to the next juridical day after the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the aforesaid church, before himself or his Commissaries.
Page 9 - L'Orti was a great baron and landowner in the West of England. In 21st Henry III., he obtained license of the King to impark his woods at Curry Rivell, in order to be exempt from the regard of the neighbouring forest of Neroche. He died, 26th Henry III., 1241, and Sabina his wife survived him and had livery of the lands of her inheritance. The issue of this marriage was a son Henry, who became heir to the large estates of his father and mother. He accompanied Edward I. in his expedition into Wales,...
Page 161 - But it was provided (m) that no man should be compelled to go out of the kingdom at any rate, nor out of his shire but in cases of urgent necessity ; nor should provide soldiers unless by consent of parliament.
Page 7 - Clifford was taken up at Godstow, and broken in pieces, and that upon it were interchangeable weavings drawn out and decked with roses red and green, and the picture of the cup, out of which she drank the poison given her by the queen, carved in stone.
Page 124 - Mary Magdalene washing the feet of Jesus with her tears, and wiping them with her hair. Jesus, two Apostles, the woman taken in adultery, four Jews accusing her.
Page 14 - that we have given, and granted, and by our charter have confirmed to the Prioress of Bocland and the Sisters there serving God, of the Order of the Hospital of Jerusalem, to maintain three maidens for ever in the said priory, a delivery of two pence and one half-penny, which Roger, Chaplain of the Bishop of Lincoln, used to receive daily by the hand of the Sheriff of Hereford our almoner ; and a delivery of two pence, which Margary, the nurse of Isabella our sister, used to receive daily by the...
Page 3 - I may remind him that 1 am introducing him to an entirely new and different aspect of Monastic Life and Conventual Usage from those with which I have in previous pages endeavoured to make him familiar. The system of the Hospital itself was unlike all others save one, as I shall presently attempt to show. And, in addition to this, it is specially to be noted that we have here a feature which even in that Order was not elsewhere to be seen in England. Mynchin Buckland was both a Priory and a Preceptory....
Page 121 - The Staff of the Mighty Lord.' Beneath, in an oblong compartment, is the effigy of St. John the Baptist, pointing with his right hand to the Holy Lamb, which rests on his left arm. This figure had been supposed to be the Blessed Virgin with the Infant Jesus. Mr. Lysons, however, corrected this error in part, representing as a lamb what had been supposed to be the Holy Child, but the figure [152] which holds it, has in his engraving the...