Memorials of the Ancient of Ipswich, in the County of SuffolkLongmans; and J. R. Smith, 1850 - 403 pages |
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Page 78 - Tuesday next after the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the 45th year of our reign.
Page 91 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 76 - Friday next after the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul in the 21st year of the reign of King Henry [III] when Robert of Seleda was hung.
Page 75 - ... they would arrive in the next fleet of ships, and would bring with them materials for the construction of machines. The king of France not thinking fit to desist, on that account, from his purpose, commanded an assault to be proclaimed, by voice of herald, throughout the army. Therefore, on the Monday after the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the king of France, having erected his machines, gave orders to his men to arm. Then might have been seen a countless multitude of armed...
Page 289 - ... Norman Spital, did much service to the city." The next year Queen Elizabeth gave a charter to the Corporation of Ipswich, which had " appointed certain houses for the correction of the vicious and curing of the sick, and called it Christ's Hospital." || The purpose of the hospital is thus stated : " that the poor and orphans may be taught, such as were sick to be preserved alive for honest uses, and the slothful vagabonds and sturdy beggars, women of bad name and reputation, to be committed to...
Page 369 - Ward was born at Haverhill in 1577, and buried in St. Mary Tower, March 8, 1639. He was a man of considerable talent and eminence, but his productions are overlaid with strange conceits, and as a consequence full of odd and startling expressions. This, however, was the fault of his time more perhaps than the individual, though it appears evident Mr. Ward did not curb propensities engendered by the age, but rather followed them with devotedness and enlarged upon them. His chief sermons and addresses...
Page 33 - Cough, who describes it as exhibiting " Leicester-town in one corner ; several warriors in the middle ; Sir Charles William Brandon, who is supposed to have lived here, father to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, and standard-bearer to the Earl of Richmond, lies dead by his horse, and on the other side the standard : at a distance seems to be the earl, with the crown placed on his head by Sir William Stanley ; in another is Leicester-abbey, the abbot coming out of the porch to compliment the...
Page 77 - Book, and with one voice solemnly to swear "that from " henceforth they would be obedient, intending, con" suiting, and aiding to their bailiffs, coroners, and all " and every aforesaid capital portmen, with their persons " and chattels, to preserve and maintain the aforesaid " town of Ipswich, and the new charter...
Page 28 - ... it, and at the time of its being opened, the floor was strewed with wooden angels, and such figures as usually serve to decorate a Catholic oratory. It is supposed that the chapel existed in a perfect state at the date of the Reformation ; but after that period the open assumption of the proscribed faith becoming dangerous, the body of this place of worship was converted into a common sitting-room, and the roof concealed by a beamed ceiling.
Page 286 - ... very large and wide, reaching downe to their knees onely, with three or four guardes a peece laid down along either hose. And the Venetian hosen, they reach beneath the knee to the gartering place...