Iter Lancastrense: A Poem, Written A.D. 1636Chetham society, 1845 - 84 pages |
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afterwards allso alluded ancient appears Assheton Bart Barthomley Bishop Bodleian Library bread buried Butterworth Cheshire Chester CHETHAM SOCIETY Christ Church collection College Council county of Lancaster curious daugh daughter daye death died doth Earl edited Editor Edward Elerius filius Gent George GEORGE ORMEROD hath haue heir Henry Heywood Hall Hist holy holy orders hypocaust Iter Lancastrense James's Jhon Johannes James John John Heywood King labours Lancashire learned Lond London Lord Lordship Manchester Manuscript married Middleton Monks Noble Norris Oliver Heywood Ormerod Oxford Oxon parish Pendle Penketh Peter Heywood Poem Prince printed quæ quam quod reader Richard James Rigby Robert Heywood Rochdale Roman Saint Saint Sunday says Sir Robert Cotton somme Talbot THOMAS HEYWOOD Thomas James tion Tracts unto vnto warre Wenefrede Whalley whoe William Winefride writer written
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Page 22 - It snewed in his hous of mete and drinke Of alle deintees that men coud of thinke. After the sondry sesons of the yere So changed he his mete and his soupere. Ful many a fat partrich had he in mewe, And many a breme and many a luce in stewe.
Page xc - 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 22 - A FRANKELEIN was in this compagnie; White was his herd, as is the dayesie. Of his complexion he was sanguin. Wel loved he by the morwe a sop in win. To liven in delit was ever his wone, For he was Epicures owen sone, That held opinion, that plein delit Was veraily felicite parfite.
Page lxxx - 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 lxxvi - ... 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 62 - 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 22 - Wo was his coke, but if his sauce were Poinant and sharpe, and redy all his gere. His table dormant in his halle alway Stode redy covered alle the longe day.
Page xxxvi - Dr. Thomas James, in a letter to Usher, gives the following character of him : " A kinsman of mine is at this present, by my direction, writing Becket's life, wherein it shall be plainly shewed, both out of his own writings, and those of his time, that he was not, as he is esteemed, an arch-saint, but an archrebel ; and that the papists have been not a little deceived by him. This kinsman of mine, as well as myself, should be right glad to do any service to your lordship in this kind. He is of strength,...
Page 80 - 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...
Page 22 - Heng at his girdel, white as morwe milk. A shereve hadde he ben, and a countour. Was no wher swiche a worthy vavasour.