| 1802 - 700 pages
...The priefts belong• ing to the priory of Clerkenwell, ' ufing to attend there, made the peo' pie believe that the virtues of the « water proceeded from the efficacy of 'their prayers 5 but, at the Reforma• tion, the well was flopped upon the • fuppofition that the frequenting of... | |
| John Feltham - 1802 - 466 pages
...reformation was stopped up by the authority of government, to check the impositions of the priests of t he priory of Clerkenwell, who extorted money from the...prayers. The concourse of visitors had induced the proprietor to have music at the heuse, and concerts were constantly performed there. The-Well, however,... | |
| B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 pages
...it, in certain diseases, but which was filled up, by the authority of government, at the Reformation, to check the impositions of the priests of the priory...visitors had induced the proprietors to have music at their house, and concerts were constantly performed there : but the well being closed, the place declined,... | |
| John Feltham - 1806 - 496 pages
...concerts are constantly performed there; but which at the reformation was stopped up by the authority of government, to check the impositions of the priests...money from the people by making them believe that ths virtues of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their prayers. The well, however, being closed,... | |
| Edward Pugh - 1809 - 784 pages
...cures it effected in certain diseases; but which at the Reformation was stopped up by the authority of government, to check the impositions of the priests...were constantly performed there. But after the well closed, the place declined, and the music ceased; however, in 1683, a person named Sadler, having opened... | |
| David Hughson - 1809 - 820 pages
...cures it effected in certain diseases ; but which at the Reformation was stopped up by the authority of government, to check the impositions of the priests...of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their their prayers. The concourse of visitors had induced the proprietors to have music, at the house, and... | |
| 1822 - 474 pages
...Holy Well. The priests belonging to the priory of Clerkenwell using to attend there, made the people believe that the virtues of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their prayers: butat the Reformation the well was stopped, upon thesupposition, that the frequenting of it was altogether... | |
| Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 500 pages
...Holy-well. The priests belonging to the priory of Clerkenwell using to attend there, made the people believe that the virtues of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their prayers ; but at the Reformation the well was stopped, 1 Hist, of Music, vol. T. pp. 352, 353. ' It is said... | |
| John Hawkins - 1875 - 508 pages
...Holywell. The priests belonging to the priory of Clerkenwell using to attend there, made the people believe that the virtues of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their prayers. But upon the reformation the well was stopped up, upon a supposition that the frequenting of it was... | |
| Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1890 - 342 pages
...Holy Well. The priests belonging to the Priory'of Clerkenwell using to attend there, made the people believe that the virtues of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their prayers. But upon the Reformation the well was stopped up." — (Ant., xiii., 108.) SHOREDITCH : ST. JOHN'S... | |
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