The Soul of DorsetHoughton Mifflin Company, 1922 - 352 pages |
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... Hutchins ' Dorset , I owe much in the earlier chapters to Mr. Hadrian Allcroft's Earthwork of England . There are a number of less universal works- those of Coker , Warne , Roberts , and others to which the same general gratitude must ...
... Hutchins ' Dorset , I owe much in the earlier chapters to Mr. Hadrian Allcroft's Earthwork of England . There are a number of less universal works- those of Coker , Warne , Roberts , and others to which the same general gratitude must ...
Page 113
... Hutchins : " Whereas the Abbot taketh to his own use and hath made great waste of wood sales wrongfully sold from his brothers and their tenants , and also hath sent out of the treasury certain jewels more than half ( whereas we cannot ...
... Hutchins : " Whereas the Abbot taketh to his own use and hath made great waste of wood sales wrongfully sold from his brothers and their tenants , and also hath sent out of the treasury certain jewels more than half ( whereas we cannot ...
Page 121
... in an epitaph of 1595 now lost ( recorded by Hutchins ) : " Nicholas ye first , and Martin ye last . Good night , Nicholas . " A long night , whose dawn may never break . Piddletown church , it also seems to me , is THE AGE OF FAITH 121.
... in an epitaph of 1595 now lost ( recorded by Hutchins ) : " Nicholas ye first , and Martin ye last . Good night , Nicholas . " A long night , whose dawn may never break . Piddletown church , it also seems to me , is THE AGE OF FAITH 121.
Page 147
... Hutchins ' editors mention another remarkable inhabitant of Swyre churchyard who died in 1613 - a Bridport doctor , Walter Gray . He " was a little desperate doctor commonly wearing a pistol about his neck . " He had a bodyguard of the ...
... Hutchins ' editors mention another remarkable inhabitant of Swyre churchyard who died in 1613 - a Bridport doctor , Walter Gray . He " was a little desperate doctor commonly wearing a pistol about his neck . " He had a bodyguard of the ...
Page 151
... Hutchins , half his gravestone lay in Batcombe churchyard . Like another Dorset man of the same century , he would be buried neither in nor outside the church , and had his tomb placed in the wall . The church itself has a simple slab ...
... Hutchins , half his gravestone lay in Batcombe churchyard . Like another Dorset man of the same century , he would be buried neither in nor outside the church , and had his tomb placed in the wall . The church itself has a simple slab ...
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Page 103 - Richard's body have interred new ; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, Who twice a day their...
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