Archbishop Rotherham, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of Cambridge University: A Sketch of His Life and EnvironmentJ. W. Ruddock, 1901 - 212 pages |
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... In a more general way I desire here to express my thanks to Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson , Librarian of King's College , Cambridge ; Rev. G. A. Weekes , Librarian of Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge ; Dr. Searle , Master vi . PREFACE .
... In a more general way I desire here to express my thanks to Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson , Librarian of King's College , Cambridge ; Rev. G. A. Weekes , Librarian of Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge ; Dr. Searle , Master vi . PREFACE .
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... Master of Pembroke College , Cambridge ; Mr. J. Arthur Munro , Librarian of Lincoln College , Oxford ; Mr. S. W. Kershaw , Librarian at Lambeth Palace ; Rev. Andrew Clark , Author of the History of Lincoln College in " The Colleges of ...
... Master of Pembroke College , Cambridge ; Mr. J. Arthur Munro , Librarian of Lincoln College , Oxford ; Mr. S. W. Kershaw , Librarian at Lambeth Palace ; Rev. Andrew Clark , Author of the History of Lincoln College in " The Colleges of ...
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... master's hand in Lord Lytton's " Last of the Barons . " With slight allowance for changed fashions in dress and armour , and the increase of wealth and energy through the victories in France , the speaking portraitures of the Canterbury ...
... master's hand in Lord Lytton's " Last of the Barons . " With slight allowance for changed fashions in dress and armour , and the increase of wealth and energy through the victories in France , the speaking portraitures of the Canterbury ...
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... Masters of Pembroke ( Wrenn MSS . at Pembroke ) discredits the assertion as inconsistent with the oath taken on admis- sion ... master in Gramer " was the flogging of a boy , who was given a grote " for his pains , “ openly in the scolys ...
... Masters of Pembroke ( Wrenn MSS . at Pembroke ) discredits the assertion as inconsistent with the oath taken on admis- sion ... master in Gramer " was the flogging of a boy , who was given a grote " for his pains , “ openly in the scolys ...
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... course of study was to be theology , the arts , and philosophy . Two Masters of Arts of superior ability might study civil law ; four the public disputations on the subjects of the course provided 32 ARCHBISHOP ROTHERHAM .
... course of study was to be theology , the arts , and philosophy . Two Masters of Arts of superior ability might study civil law ; four the public disputations on the subjects of the course provided 32 ARCHBISHOP ROTHERHAM .
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Page 140 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 123 - ... to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day. Her wheel at rest, the matron thrills no more With treasured tales and legendary lore. All, all are fled ; nor mirth nor music flows To chase the dreams of innocent repose. All, all are fled ; yet still I linger here ! What secret charms this silent spot endear ? Mark yon old mansion frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze.
Page 123 - The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When all things pleased, for life itself was new, And the heart promised what the fancy drew. See, thro' the fractured pediment revealed, Where moss inlays the rudely sculptured shield, The martin's old, hereditary nest.
Page 64 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 12 - Because I was born in the town of Rotherham, and baptized in the parish church of the same town, and so at that same place was born into the world, and also born again by the holy bath flowing from the side of Jesus...
Page 28 - He distributes innumerable straws in various places, with the ends in sight, that he may recall by the mark what his memory cannot retain. These straws, which the stomach of the book never digests, and which nobody takes...
Page 186 - Graybern, provost, and the fellows of the college of Jesus in Rotherham, quit-claim to John Scott and his heirs their interest in Houseley and le Chapell in accordance with a charter thereof made to the said John by the archbishop himself. On Nov. 4th, 1507, John Scott makes Houseley hall over to trustees as part of the jointure of Agnes his wife.
Page 29 - It is not until after a three years' probation, during which time it has been ascertained whether the ' scholar ' be ingenio, capacitate sensus, moribus, conditionibus et scientia, dignus, habilis, et idoneus FOR FURTHER STUDY, that the provost and fellows are empowered to elect him one of their number
Page 28 - ... apply his wet hands, oozing with sweat, to turning over the volumes, then beat the white parchment all over with his dusty gloves, or hunt over the page, line by line, with his fore-finger covered with dirty leather. Then, as the flea bites, the holy book is thrown aside, which, however, is scarcely closed once in a month, and is so swelled with the dust that has fallen into it, that it will not yield to the efforts of the closer.
Page 65 - This carries with it an admission," as Lord C. observes, " that a power of jurisdiction did reside in the chancellor, so long as he did not determine against the common law, nor interfere where the common law furnished a remedy. The king's answer,