Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 23

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Kent Archaeological Society., 1898
 

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Page 89 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page xxxvii - President referred to the great loss the Society had sustained by the death of Mr.
Page 299 - Theise three silver basons had lattin basons within them, havinge pricks for serges, or great wax candles, to stand on, the lattin basons beinge to receive the drops of the candles, which did burne continually, both day and night, in token that the House was always watchinge to God.
Page 75 - To have and to hold to them their heirs and assigns for ever as in the deed of fee simple on that account made is more fully contained.
Page xiv - The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a Council, consisting of the President, two or more Vice-Presidents, Honorary Treasurer, Secretary, and not more than twenty-one elected Members of the Society.
Page ii - Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii, when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Page 299 - H. 45] hung in chaines of silver; one of them did hange in the south side of the Quire, above the stepps that go upp to the High Altar, the second on the north side opposite to the first, the third, in the midst, betweene them both, and just before the High Altar. Theise three silver basons had lattin basons within them, havinge pricks for serges, or great wax candles, to stand on, the lattin basons...
Page 178 - ... or in or within any of them, as shall happen to be void during such time as the patron thereof shall be and remain a recusant convict as aforesaid...
Page 180 - Sir Edward Deering, a man very opposite to all their designs (but a man of levity and vanity, easily flattered by being commended), to present into the House.; which he did from the gallery, with the two verses in Ovid, the application whereof was his greatest motive: "— " Cuncta prius tentanda; sed immedicabile vulnus Kn-'f rfcidendum est, ne pars sincere trahatur.
Page 295 - Canterbury, who was many years dean of the cathedral, gave fifty pounds towards ornamenting this part .of the church. There was then only a pannel of wainscot in the middle, in the place of which was fixed a large piece of rich velvet in a frame elegantly carved and gilt. This was removed a few years ago, and it is now decorated with a picture of The Angels appearing to the Shephei'ds, by WEST.

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