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Stonyhurst College, Its Past and Present: An Account of Its History ... A. Hewitson No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 114 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 72 - Martiloge in englysshe after the vse of the chirche of Salisbury, and as it is redde in Syon, with addicyons...
Page 113 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 70 - The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, not the name of a Lawyer onely, but of the Law it selfe .... Anthore Edw.
Page 9 - Jersey wool, and provided a man to comb the wool, and a woman who taught them to spin whom he kept in his house, and allotted several rooms he had in one of the courts of Stonihurst, for them to work in, and the neighbours came to spin accordingly ; the spinners came every day, and span as long a time as they could spare, morning and afternoon, from their families ; this continued from April, 1699, to August, 1701. When they had all...
Page 96 - St. Dunstan, as the story goes, Once pull'd the devil by the nose With red-hot tongs, which made him roar, That he was heard three miles or more.
Page 9 - Jersey wool ; and provided a man to comb the wool, and a woman who taught them to spin, whom he kept in his house ; and allotted several rooms he had in one of the courts of Stonyhurst, for them to work in j and the neighbours came to spin accordingly.
Page 116 - Noster are of frequent occurrence, though the omission of the name of the emperor is uncommon. Another inscription on an altar found here, which Camden says " was the largest and fairest I ever saw...
Page 72 - Godfaders and Godmoders of this chylde ; we charge you that ' ye charge the fader and the moder to kepe it from fyer and ' water, and other perilles, to the age of vii yeres.
Page 5 - To the memory of Sir Bichard the most ancient monument in Mitton Church is erected, and from the inscription upon it we learn he was " Master Forester of the forest of Bowland, Steward of the Manor of Sladeburn, Lieutenant of the Isle of Man, and one of her Majesty's (Elizabeth's) deputy Lieutenants in the county of Lancaster.