Devon Notes and Queries, Volume 5

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Peter Fabyan Sparke Amery, John S. Amery, Joshua Brooking Rowe
J. G. Commin, 1909

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Page 38 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 38 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said, 'Tis time we were away.
Page 196 - ... ordained, or provided, or any other thing, cause, or matter, whatsoever, in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the 23d day of May, in the seventh year of our reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the * * * * Per ipsum Regem.
Page 276 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 187 - ... of the year, that is to say, at the feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist, St Michael the Archangel...
Page 128 - Gules, on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchy, argent, an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure, flory counter-flory of the first...
Page 196 - Hanaper or elsewhere to our use for the same in anywise howsoever to be rendered paid or made, although express mention of the true yearly value or of the certainty of the premises or...
Page 291 - County, hath desired mee to assigne unto him such Armes, as hee and his posterity may lawfully beare. Know yee therefore that I...
Page 39 - Behold ye these things mystically : for not one is there without meaning. The sleepers be the Children of this world, lying in sins. The cock is the company of preachers, which do preach sharply, do stir up the sleepers to cast away the works of darkness, crying, Woe to the Sleepers : Awake thou that Sleepest...
Page 276 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

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