Remains historical and literary connected with the Palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester published by the Chetham Society, Volume 971876 |
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Page 156 - ... and, then, from all thy, sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be ; even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see ; and as far as the...
Page 238 - ... and before the time of Henry VII., the foundations of parliamentary government had been laid. The union of the houses of York and Lancaster under Henry VII. begins a new period in English history. Part of his reign was disturbed by Perkin Warbeck and other pretenders to the throne, in support of whose claims the turbulent nobles found vent for their restlessness. But the greater part of his long reign was distinguished from preceding reigns as a time of...
Page 156 - I remit to you all punishment which you deserve in purgatory on their account; and I restore you to the holy sacraments of the church, to the unity of the faithful, and to that innocence and purity which you possessed at baptism: so that when you die, the gates of punishment shall be shut, and the gates of the paradise of delight shall be opened; and if you shall not die at present, this grace shall remain in full force when you are at the point of death. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the...
Page 156 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon •thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred ; then from all thy sins, transgressions, and...
Page 22 - ... to have been nearly circular, and the form of each that of an obtuse cone. Around the circumference of the area occupied by these tumuli were placed at intervals large boundary stones. The most elevated of the cairns was about ten paces in diameter, and about four feet from the base to the summit. Exactly in the centre was an excavation filled with stones. The whole of the uppermost stones of which this, but no other, tumulus was composed, exhibited every mark of having undergone the most intense...
Page 17 - Minn to the rt., a short cut comes in from Macclesfield at Clulow Cross. To the rt., 1J m., is Winde, a village so retired that it is recorded in Bishop Gastrell's notes that the inhabitants paid what they pleased for preaching, " when there is any, but there has been none for half a year past, 1717.
Page 193 - ... appointed and removed at pleasure, until the reign of Edward IV., when it was, with the Stewardship of the Hundred and Forest, granted to Thomas Lord Stanley, and, with a single exception, when Sir William Brereton, the Parliamentarian General during the disorders of the Commonwealth period obtruded, has remained in the family of the Earls of Derby ever since. In addition to the...
Page 96 - Aug. 22, 1536, concerning the region between Coventry and Chester " For certain of the knights and gentlemen, and most commonly all, liveth so incontinently, having their concubines openly in their houses, with five or six of their children, and putting from them their wives, that all the country therewith be not a little offended, and taketh evil example of them" (Miscellaneous State Papers, London, 1778, I.
Page 39 - Here lies the body of Edward Green, Who for cutting stone famous was seen, But he was sent to apprehend One Joseph Clarke of Kerridge End, Who was stealing deer of Squire Doine'i, When he was shot and died of the wounds.
Page 131 - Prince, his son, in all their wars in France, and was at the battle of Cressie, and had Lyme given him for that service ; and after their deaths, served king Richard the second, and left him not in his troubles, but was taken with him, and beheaded at Chester by King Henry...