The chronicle of the Christian ages: or, Record of events ecclesiastical, civil and military, from the year 1 to the end of 1858, Volume 1 |
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Page 677 - Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster cruse of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 677 - Nero procured others to be accused, and inflicted exquisite punishments upon those people who were held in abhorrence for their crimes, and were COMMONLY known by the name of CHRISTIANS. They had their denomination from Christus, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious superstition, though checked for...
Page 961 - He was king over the whole English nation, except that part which was under the dominion of the Danes ; and he held the kingdom one year and a half less than thirty years. And then Edward his son succeeded to the kingdom. Then Ethelwald, the etheling, his uncle's son, seized the castle at Wimborne* and that at Twineham,')' without leave of the king and of his
Page 993 - And in that year it was decreed, that tribute, for the first time, should be given to the Danish-men, on account of the great terror which they caused by the seacoast. That was at first ten thousand pounds: this counsel advised first Archbishop Sidric.
Page 931 - Minster sixty loads of wood, and twelve of coal, and six of faggots, and two tuns full of pure ale, and two beasts fit for slaughter, and six hundred loaves, and ten measures of Welsh ale, and each year a horse and thirty shillings and one day's entertainment.
Page 1409 - It is ordained and established, that it shall be lawful to all manner of men that find any thieves robbing by day or by night, or going or coming to rob, or steal, in, or out, going or coming, having no faithful man of good name and fame in their company in English apparel...
Page 1409 - English apparel upon any of the liege people of the king, that it shall be lawful to take and kill those, and to cut off their heads, without any impeachment of our sovereign lord the king, &c.
Page 967 - This year king Sihtric slew Neil his brother. A. 922. In this year, between Rogation days and midsummer, king Edward went with his forces to Stamford, and commanded the town to be built upon the south side of the river: and all the people which owed obedience to the northern town submitted to him, and sought to him to be their lord.
Page 1413 - He was only in his forty-second year when he was put to death ; " at which death," says Caxton, every man that was there might learn to die, and take his death patiently." Fuller has said that " the axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was left in the heads of all the surviving nobility.
Page 671 - Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.