Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 21

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Kent Archaeological Society., 1895
 

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Page 147 - There was on the east side of the city a church dedicated to the honour of St. Martin, built whilst the Romans were still in the island, wherein the queen, who, as has been said before, was a Christian, used to pray. In this they first began to meet, to sing, to pray, to say mass, to preach, and to baptize...
Page 298 - ... the height of a yard, or thereabout; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow.
Page 323 - Be sober, merry, wise, and you'll the same possess. VIII. Ye people all that hear me ring, Be faithful to your Grod and king. I*. In wedlock's bands all ye who join, With hands your hearts unite; So shall our tuneful tongues combine To laud the nuptial rite.
Page 160 - King as of his manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only, in free and common socage and not in chief, and are worth per annum, clear, 10*.
Page 227 - Clarendon, who admits, reluctantly, that " there were amongst them some few of the quality and degree of gentlemen, and who had estates, and such a proportion of credit and reputation as could consist with the guilt they had contracted.
Page 297 - History of Birmingham," speaks of an enormous cinder-heap which had existed there from the Roman time. ' Yarranton, who published a book at the end of the seventeenth century, entitled " Improvement by Sea and Land," describes " great heaps of cinders formerly made of ironstone, they being the offal (or waste) thrown out of the foot-blasts by the Romans ; they then having no works to go by water, to drive bellows, but all by the foot-blast.
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 299 - If you can get one of the Cowden* furnaces it will be very well, for I do assure you that if I were but forty years old I would, by God's help, get a good estate by this employment, for I have within these twenty years cleared near J300 per annum out of that very forge...
Page 70 - ... the vertue of this water, which now remayneth playne water, as all other waters do : so that the kyng moved of necessitie, could no lesse do then deface the shryne that was author of so much ydolatry. Whether the doyng thereof hath bene the undoyng of the canonised saint, or not, I cannot tell. But this is true, that his bones are spred amongest the bones of so many dead men, that without some greate miracle they wyll not be found agayne.
Page 244 - Had sooth'd the breast with burning anguish torn ; The voice of seas, the winds that rouse the deep, Far-sounding floods that tear the mountain's steep ; Each wild and melancholy blast that raves Round these dim towers, and smites the beating waves — This...

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