Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 7

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Chetham Society., 1845 - Cheshire (England)
 

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Page xcii - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page x - A TREATISE OF THE CORRUPTIONS of SCRIPTURE, COUNCILS, and FATHERS, by the Prelates, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for the Maintenance of Popery.
Page 24 - Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in mewe, And many a breem and many a luce in stewe. Wo was his cook, but-if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharp, and redy al his gere. His table dormant in his halle alway Stood redy covered al the longe day. At sessiouns ther was he lord and sire ; Ful ofte tyme he was knight of the shire.
Page lxxxii - For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of : for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel...
Page lxxviii - ... continually. When I went several times to visit and comfort him in the year 1630, he would tell me, ' they had broken his heart, that had locked up his library from him.
Page 24 - His brede, his ale, was alway after on ; A better envyned man was no wher non. Withouten bake mete never was his hous, Of fish and flesh, and that so plenteous, It snewed in his hous of mete and drinke, Of all deintees that men coud of thinke ; After the sondry sesons of the yere, So changed he his mete and his soupere.
Page 68 - English translation of it, rather than my own, from p. 132 of the " Historic of that most famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus, St. George of Cappadocia, asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church, and opposition of the present, by Peter Heylyn ; printed in London for Henry Seyle, and to be sold at his shop the signe of the Tyger's head in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1631.
Page 24 - An housholder, and that a grete was he; Seint Julian he was in his contree. His brede, his ale, was alway after on; A better envyned man was no wher non. Withouten bake mete never was his hous...
Page 88 - That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually, by three auditors, to be elected at the general meeting; and that any member who shall be one year in arrcar of his subscription, shall no longer be considered as belonging to the Society.
Page 88 - Society shall be limited to three hundred and fifty members. 2. That the Society shall consist of members being subscribers of one pound annually, such subscription to be paid in advance, on or before the day of general meeting in each year. The...

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