Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to AntiquitySociety of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1898 Annual report of the Society for 1855-57, 1860-1864, 1878, 1882-83, 1884, 1888-89, 1892-1902, 1904-1922 included in n. s. v. 1-3, 6-9, 11, 13, 16-25; ser. 3, v. 2-9, 11-20. |
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Page 124 - Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form giving security whereupon they with security entered into and acknowledged Bond conditioned as the law directs.
Page 124 - Neville, one of the executors therein named, who made oath according to law, certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form...
Page 197 - This parchment book was to be kept in a ' sure coffer with three locks,' of which the minister and each churchwarden was to keep a key ; and, for further security against loss, a true copy of the names of all persons christened, married, or buried in the year before was to be transmitted every year to the bishop of the diocese, within a month after Easter, to be preserved in the episcopal archives.
Page 211 - August, one thousand, six hundred and seventy-eight, no corpse of any person, or persons, shall be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet or shroud, or anything whatsoever made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or in any stuff or thing other than what is made of sheep's wool only...
Page 209 - Deo dandum ; a thing to be given to God.] In English law. Any personal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner.
Page 19 - Readers were ordained to supply the i =; necessity of the church at this juncture. They were to serve in small livings, where there was no minister, and to supply till they were filled . . . They were taken out of the laity, tradesmen or others ; any that was of sober conversation and honest behaviour, and that could read and write. . .They seemed not wholly to forbear their callings, but were 20 not countenanced to follow them, especially if they were mechanical.
Page 68 - ... the man's soul carried to heaven, and knew beforehand what was afterwards going to be told him by others. CHAPTER XXXV HOW HE CHANGED WATER BY TASTING IT, SO THAT IT HAD THE FLAVOUR OF WINE WHEN he had gone regularly through the upper districts, he came to a nunnery, which we have before mentioned, not far from the mouth of the river Tyne ; where he was magnificently entertained by Christ's servant, Abbess Verca, — a woman of a most noble character, both in spiritual and temporal concerns....
Page 107 - M • p • on distance-slabs, we are bound to read the figures following as Roman miles and paces ; it is only when there is p • or p • p • before the figures that we are entitled to treat these as feet.
Page 32 - ... (1) by the Crusades — (2) by the wars of the Roses. 2. Mention any instances of struggles in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries between the ecclesiastical and civil powers in England, and state what measures were taken to control the former. 3. State distinctly the claims of the different aspirants to the throne of Scotland on the death of the Maid of Norway.
Page 53 - Anglorum, regularibus subdita disciplinis, ipso tempore coronam expectabat aeternam : cuius aemulata exemplum et ipsa proposito peregrinandi annum totum in praefata prouincia retenta est : deinde ab Aidano episcopo in patriam reuocata accepit locum unius familiae ad septentrionalem plagam Viuri fluminis, ubi aeque anno uno monachicam cum perpaucis sociis uitam agebat.