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Page 18 - Newton for the health of his soul and the souls of his father and mother, and all his ancestors and successors.
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 5 - ... votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as a member of the committee.
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 97 - Canyngton were to be held in chief, by the service of a twentieth part of one Knight's fee...
Page 9 - Cucklington, with a fair yearly, on the eve, day, and morrow after the Feast of All Saints, and on the seven ensuing days.
Page 124 - Jesus, and Simon the Leper asking Jesus to eat with him ; two disciples, 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 33 - IV., p. 2, m. 28. 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 had been, as we have seen, conceded to them so...
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...
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.