Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 44

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Chetham Society., 1901 - Cheshire (England) - 220 pages
 

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Page iv - No hint of approaching change breaks the quiet monotony of the record of the Abbey Court. The great Cardinal fell, and the English Church was legally severed from the Church of Rome. Not a suggestion even of heresy disturbs the even tenour of its entries with their ceaseless tale of petty human faults and vulgar sins. The deep calm of loyal Lancashire was only broken up when the systematic attack upon the monasteries began in 15356.
Page 16 - Willelmus constituit se soluturum — vjd die mer- ю curii proximo post ffestum sancti Barnabe. Item quod Alicia filia prefati Willelmi violatrix est Sabbati, et pinsuit panem ordeacium in die penthecostes vltimo elapso et ventilauit Granum eodem die.
Page xxiii - The procedure of the court leaves the impression of a kindly, even paternal, jurisdiction, intimate and gossipy in its range and working, but orderly, beneficent, and wise in its quiescence as in its activity.
Page v - s changes — the Pilgrimage of Grace — found support in Lancashire, and the movement a centre in the famous Abbey of Whalley, under the guidance of its last Abbot, John Paslew.
Page 204 - God, ovvre lady saynt Mary and to all the sayntes in hevyn and my body to be...

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