A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury: With Many Observations Not to be Found in Any Description Hitherto PublishedW. Blackley, 1825 - 366 pages |
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Page 9 - This field and hill were improved, and these terraces, walks, and plantations made, in the year 1790, for the use of the public, at the sole expense of James Simmons, Esq.
Page 227 - Mary, thou spouse of God. There were in this window many other pictures of popish saints, as of St. George, &c. But their prime cathedral saint, Archbishop...
Page 286 - The timber-work of this shrine on the outside was covered with plates of gold, damasked and embossed with wires of gold garnished with brooches, images, chains, precious stones, and great orient pearls...
Page 286 - was builded about a man's height, all of stone, then upwards of timber plain, within which was a chest of iron, containing the bones of Thomas Becket, scull and all, with the wound of his death, and the piece cut out of his scull laid in the same wound.
Page 70 - The habit of these monks was a black loose coat, or gown of stuff, reaching down to their heels, with a cowl or hood of the same, and a scapulary ; and under that a white habit, nearly as large as the former, made of flannel; these, with a pair of boots, completed their costume. From the sombre tinct of their garments they obtained the name of "Black Monks.
Page 185 - II. applies. The boy to be chosen must be full eight years old ; and may hold this exhibition for nine years ; and if he goes to Trinity or any other college in Cambridge, his exhibition may be continued for seven years from his leaving school : and if he takes orders in the first five years of the seven, it may be continued to him three years more ; that is ten in all at the University.
Page 45 - In Queen Mary's time the monastery was granted to Cardinal Pole for his life. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth, making a royal progress, kept her court here. She attended divine service at the Cathedral every Sunday, during her stay at Canterbury, and was magnificently entertained, with all her attendants and a great concourse of other company, by Archbishop Parker, on her birth-day, which she kept at the archicpiscopal palace.
Page 104 - ... whole was finished, as the arches could not well stand without some such contrivance. If the building was not taken down, many alterations must necessarily have been made in it ; not only to make it conformable to the new work, but for the convenience of vaulting the middle aile ; and some of these alterations may be the cause of that extraordinary thickness you observe in the walls. I cannot say that I observed the different thickness of them ; but that the inner part was of a different style...
Page 333 - In that window was now the picture of God the Father, and of Christ, besides a large crucifix, and the picture of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, and of the twelve apostles.
Page 301 - Alexander VI, the holy Roman church, and also of the holy church of Canterbury committed to their charge, we give you in the pall taken from the body of St. Peter, a full authority for the exercise of your archiepiscopal function : with the liberty of wearing this honourable distinction in your cathedral upon certain days, mentioned in the apostolic bulls of privilege.