 | Judith Maltby - History - 2000 - 342 pages
...pp. 571, 602, 603, 616-18. superstitious time of the Nativity (so esteem'd by them) I durst offend, & particularly be at Common prayers, which they told me was but the Masse in English . . . These were men of high flight and above Ordinances: & spake spiteful things... | |
 | N. H. Keeble - History - 2001 - 322 pages
...were taking communion on Christmas Day, 1657: before his release he was asked 'why contrarie to an Ordinance made that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the Nativity ... I durst offend, & particularly be at Common prayers, which they told me was but the Masse in English'.... | |
 | Barry Coward - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
...any longer observe the superstitious time for the Nativity (so esteem'd by them) I durst offend, & particularly be at Common prayers, which they told me was but the Masse in English, & particularly pray for Charles Stuard, for which we had no Scripture: I told them... | |
 | Ernest F. Henderson - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...ordinance made that none should any longer observe ye superstitious time of the Nativity (so esteem' d by them), I durst offend, and particularly be at Common Prayers, which they told me was but ye masse in English, and particularly pray for Charles Steuart, for which we had no Scripture. I told... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1853 - 556 pages
...marshal, some to prison. When I came before them, they took my name and abode, and examined me why, contrary to the ordinance made, that none should any...them,) I durst offend, and particularly be at Common Prayer, which, they told me, was but the Mass in English, and particularly pray for Charles Stuart,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 666 pages
...some to prison. When I came before them they tooke my name and abode, examin'd me why, contrarie to an ordinance made that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the Nativity (so esteem'd by them), I durst offend, and particularly be at common prayers, which they told me was but... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 656 pages
...they went up to receive the sacrament, and arrested them afterwards for disobeying the ' Ordinance that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the Nativity.' He was, however, released the next day, and, throughout the reign of Cromwell, he evidently had friends... | |
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I came before them, they took my name and abode, examined me why, 40 contrary to the ordinance made, that none should any longer observe the superstitious time of the Nativity... 
