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Algernon ancient appears Arundel Castle Baron battle beautiful Bignor Bishop of Chichester brass buried called carved century chancel chapel Cheynell Cheynell's Church of Petworth Countess Dallaway daughter Dawtrey deer died Duchess Duke of Somerset Duncton Earl Marshal Earl of Egremont Earl of Northumber Earl of Northumberland Edward Edward VI Elizabeth eminent England erected Eton College Gaol Hall hands Hariot Henry de Perci Henry Percy Henry VIII Honor and Manor Hotspur interest Joceline John king's Kirdford Lady land late Earl Leland letter Lord Leconfield Lord of Petworth Lord Perci manor of Petworth mansion married Norman North Northchapel observed old Petworth Petteworth Petworth Church Petworth House Petworth marble Petworth Park portraits present prisoners Rectors of Petworth reign Richard roads Rotherbridge says Scots Seymour shews Shrewsbury Sussex sword Thomas Tillington Tower town Vandyck William William de Perci worth Wyndham
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Page 14 - goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women and they put them in prison for their gold and silver and tortured them with pains unspeakable. They hung some up by their feet and smoked them with foul smoke, some by their thumbs or by the head and they hung burning things
Page 22 - In the adventure of this perilous day. Now Esperance ! Percy, and set on : Sound all the lofty instruments of war ; And by that music let us all embrace: For (heav'n to earth) some of us never shall A second time do such a
Page 28 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Sir Philip Sidney. Defence of
Page 51 - Thirty steeds both fleet and wight Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel I trow And with Jedwood axe at saddle bow, A hundred more fed free in stall, Such was the custom of Branksome Hall.
Page 70 - Get thee gone, thou cursed book, which has seduced so many precious souls : get thee gone thou corrupt rotten book: earth to earth, and dust to dust: get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author and see corruption.
Page 15 - when, the miserable inhabitants had no more to give, then plundered they and burnt all the towns, so that well mightest thou walk a whole day's journey nor ever shouldest thou find a man seated in a town or its lands
Page 27 - counterfeit; therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I ? Nothing confutes me but eyes; and no body
Page 26 - Tut, Tut, Good enough to toss, Food for powder, Food for powder, They'll fill a pit, as well as better, Tush man,—Mortal men, mortal men.
Page 14 - to their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it till it went into the brain. They put them into dungeons, wherein were adders and snakes and toads and thus wore them out.
Page 29 - Percye's body then He thrust his hatefull spere; With such a vehement force and might He did his body gore, The staff ran through the other side A large cloth yard, and more.