The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 20Verner & Hood, 1813 |
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... chancel , very near the communion table , is a square altar tomb close to the wall . It is of a coarse sort of grey marble , and was formerly adorned with brasses , which have been torn away . Neither tradition nor any memorial has pre ...
... chancel , very near the communion table , is a square altar tomb close to the wall . It is of a coarse sort of grey marble , and was formerly adorned with brasses , which have been torn away . Neither tradition nor any memorial has pre ...
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... chancel , and 672 in breadth ; the chancel is 74 feet by 68. It is divided into three aisles , separated from each other by two rows of slender and ele- gant columns . The roof of the nave , constructed in France , and put together ...
... chancel , and 672 in breadth ; the chancel is 74 feet by 68. It is divided into three aisles , separated from each other by two rows of slender and ele- gant columns . The roof of the nave , constructed in France , and put together ...
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... chancel , beneath the last arch , towards the east , is a large altar monument , covering . the remains of Sir Thomas Drury , who was privy - counsellor to Henry VII . and VIII . and is supposed to have died about the year 1533. This is ...
... chancel , beneath the last arch , towards the east , is a large altar monument , covering . the remains of Sir Thomas Drury , who was privy - counsellor to Henry VII . and VIII . and is supposed to have died about the year 1533. This is ...
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... chancel , and died a bachelor in 1711 , aged 60 . The church - register records the burial , in St. Mary's , of a bishop of Loghlin , in Ireland , about the same time as Abbot Reeve , but no farther memorial of him is known to be ex ...
... chancel , and died a bachelor in 1711 , aged 60 . The church - register records the burial , in St. Mary's , of a bishop of Loghlin , in Ireland , about the same time as Abbot Reeve , but no farther memorial of him is known to be ex ...
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... chancel is thirty - three feet and a half by eighteen , and twenty - four feet high . The ceiling is covered and plaistered , and divided into compartments by mouldings of wood , adorned with antique heads and foliage . All the windows ...
... chancel is thirty - three feet and a half by eighteen , and twenty - four feet high . The ceiling is covered and plaistered , and divided into compartments by mouldings of wood , adorned with antique heads and foliage . All the windows ...
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Page 277 - While lasts the mountain, or while Thames shall flow). I seem through consecrated walks to rove ; I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound, I roam from shade to shade, By godlike poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue.
Page 90 - ... shire ? Some only for not being drown'd, And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were...
Page 105 - King of England, after he had escaped the swords of his merciless rebels, and his forces received a fatal overthrow at Worcester, September the 3d, 1651, was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, departed this life the 26th day of July, 1674.
Page 21 - Extent and Boundaries. — England (including Wales) is bounded on the north by Scotland ; on the west by the Irish Sea, St George's Channel, and the Atlantic Ocean ; on the south by the English Channel ; and on the east by the German Ocean.
Page 199 - Topographer, containing a Variety of Original Articles, illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England...
Page 32 - Ye who the merits of the dead revere, Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, Regard this tomb, where Collins, hapless name, Solicits kindness with a double claim. Though nature gave him, and though science taught, The fire of fancy, and the reach of thought, Severely doom'd to penury's extreme, He pass'd in...
Page 110 - a notable man, at a thanksgiving dinner," writes a pamphleteer of the time quoted by Lysons, "having terrible long teeth, and a prodigious stomach to turn the archbishop's chapel into a kitchen, and to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel.
Page 1 - Thirty-eight parishes or places maintain all, or part of, their poor in workhouses. The number of persons so maintained, during the year ending Easter 1803, was 1131, and the expense incurred therein, amounted to 12,1247. 8s. 8£rf. being at the rate of 101. 14s. &{d. for each person maintained in that manner.
Page 76 - Destitute, an asylum for persons discharged from prison, or from the hulks ; for unfortunate and deserted females, and others, who, from loss of character, or extreme indigence, cannot procure an honest maintenance, though willing to work.
Page 71 - Monday came, all was well. Tuesday came, he not sick. Wednesday came, and still he was well ; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in the teeth.