A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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Page xvi
... Wisbeach 1224. Franciscan Church built at Cambridge · 1229. University increased by immigration of students from Paris 1231. Royal charter for University privileges 1232. Guarinus , Grand Master of Hospitallers 1234. Cyclone at Eltisley ...
... Wisbeach 1224. Franciscan Church built at Cambridge · 1229. University increased by immigration of students from Paris 1231. Royal charter for University privileges 1232. Guarinus , Grand Master of Hospitallers 1234. Cyclone at Eltisley ...
Page xviii
... Wisbeach 212 210 1580. Survivors of Roman Catholic Hierarchy imprisoned at 1584. Emmanuel College founded 1585. Feckenham , last Abbot of Westminster , dies at Wis- beach · 1589. Lancelot Andrewes , Master of Pembroke College 1595 ...
... Wisbeach 212 210 1580. Survivors of Roman Catholic Hierarchy imprisoned at 1584. Emmanuel College founded 1585. Feckenham , last Abbot of Westminster , dies at Wis- beach · 1589. Lancelot Andrewes , Master of Pembroke College 1595 ...
Page xxiv
... Wisbeach - Patriot defence of Ely Historians of the period - Local anecdotes - Eltisley cyclone- Matthew Paris His notes on the weather and the crops Growth of Cambridge - The King's Ditch - Monastic buildings -Religious Houses ...
... Wisbeach - Patriot defence of Ely Historians of the period - Local anecdotes - Eltisley cyclone- Matthew Paris His notes on the weather and the crops Growth of Cambridge - The King's Ditch - Monastic buildings -Religious Houses ...
Page xxv
... Wisbeach - Pro- testantism loses favour - Elizabeth at Cambridge - Lancelot Andrewes - Reactionary movement ― James I. and Charles I. at Royston 211-213 Civil War - Associated counties - Royalist march on Cambridge -Ecclesiastical ...
... Wisbeach - Pro- testantism loses favour - Elizabeth at Cambridge - Lancelot Andrewes - Reactionary movement ― James I. and Charles I. at Royston 211-213 Civil War - Associated counties - Royalist march on Cambridge -Ecclesiastical ...
Page 105
... Wisbeach . On the road between Cambridge and London , not far from Ware , an obelisk still marks the spot where , as a young man , in 1782 , he knelt down by the wayside and vowed to devote his life to this sacred cause . A conspicuous ...
... Wisbeach . On the road between Cambridge and London , not far from Ware , an obelisk still marks the spot where , as a young man , in 1782 , he knelt down by the wayside and vowed to devote his life to this sacred cause . A conspicuous ...
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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.
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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...