A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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... OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE . BY REV . EDWARD CONYBEARE , Vicar of Barrington , Cambs . LONDON : ELLIOT STOCK , 62 , PATERNOSTER ROW , E.C. 1897 . Gr 3782.2 8443.1.5 DLC 18 1897 LIBRARY Bright fund . POPULAR COUNTY HISTORIES .
... OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE . BY REV . EDWARD CONYBEARE , Vicar of Barrington , Cambs . LONDON : ELLIOT STOCK , 62 , PATERNOSTER ROW , E.C. 1897 . Gr 3782.2 8443.1.5 DLC 18 1897 LIBRARY Bright fund . POPULAR COUNTY HISTORIES .
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... London- King detained at Royston 223-226 Changes at Cambridge - Prayer - Book torn up- " Oliva Pacis ” — Puritan license - Mr . Tripos - University humour - Thomas Fuller - Ode to Monmouth 226-230 CHAPTER X. MODERN PERIOD . Modern ...
... London- King detained at Royston 223-226 Changes at Cambridge - Prayer - Book torn up- " Oliva Pacis ” — Puritan license - Mr . Tripos - University humour - Thomas Fuller - Ode to Monmouth 226-230 CHAPTER X. MODERN PERIOD . Modern ...
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... London , and Verulam . And when the rebellion was finally crushed by Suetonius in that crowning battle where 80,000 half - armed Britons fell , and the very baggage animals were slaughtered by the ruthless con- querors to swell the ...
... London , and Verulam . And when the rebellion was finally crushed by Suetonius in that crowning battle where 80,000 half - armed Britons fell , and the very baggage animals were slaughtered by the ruthless con- querors to swell the ...
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... London , entered the county between Godmanchester and Caxton , to leave it at Royston on crossing the Icknield Street ; and the Via Devana , from Colchester ( Camelodunum ) to Chester ( Deva ) , passed through Cambridge itself , and ...
... London , entered the county between Godmanchester and Caxton , to leave it at Royston on crossing the Icknield Street ; and the Via Devana , from Colchester ( Camelodunum ) to Chester ( Deva ) , passed through Cambridge itself , and ...
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... London or Lincoln - a not wholly satis- factory process when the considerable probability of error in MS . numbers is considered . The exceeding indirect- ness of the route traced out is another element of diffi- culty ; it is hard to ...
... London or Lincoln - a not wholly satis- factory process when the considerable probability of error in MS . numbers is considered . The exceeding indirect- ness of the route traced out is another element of diffi- culty ; it is hard to ...
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Page 175 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Page 175 - Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.
Page 63 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
Page 289 - God's people in other nations, after mature deliberation, resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and solemn league and covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most high God, do swear, I.
Page 290 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 191 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 191 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 247 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 20 - Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check : imperfect indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of...