The Antiquities of Berkshire. With a Large Appendix of Many Valuable Original Papers, Pedigrees of the Most Considerable Families in the Said County, and a Particular Account of the Castle, College, and Town of Windsor. In Three Volumes, Volume 1W. Mears ... and J. Hooke, 1723 - Berkshire (England) |
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Page 152 - ... her head,) yet the inhabitants will tell you there, that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her down stairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance, and so have blinded their villany.
Page 99 - ... perpendicular style ; portions of the painting and gilding remain. The brasses, which probably represented Ashton and his wife, with their armorial bearings, have disappeared long ago. Ashmole notices this tomb in his Antiquities of Berkshire, vol. ip 99. " On the north side of the chancel...
Page vii - I always desired, which was, That I might be enabled to live to myself and Studies ; without being forced to take Pains for a Livelihood in the World...
Page 149 - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a...
Page 154 - Babington, the Earl's chaplain, did preach the funeral sermon, he tript once or twice in his speech, by recommending to their memories that virtuous lady so pitifully murdered, instead of saying pitifully slain.
Page vi - Freemasons ; who are known to one another all over the world, by certain signals and watch words known to them alone. They have several Lodges in different countries for their reception ; and, when any of them fall into decay, the Brotherhood is to relieve them.
Page 152 - ... without hurting her hood that was upon her head) yet the inhabitants will tell you there, that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her down stairs, thereby...
Page 152 - God, and said to a person of note, (who hath related the same to others since,) not long before his death, that all the devils in hell did tear him in pieces- Forster, likewise, after this fact, being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company...
Page x - ... Ashmole was early introduced into the presence and favour of his majesty, and on June 18, 1660, which was the second time he had the honour of discoursing with the king, he graciously bestowed upon him the place of Windsor herald. A few days after, he was appointed by the king to make a description of his medals, and had them delivered into his hands, and king Henry Vlllth's closet assigned for his use, being also allowed his diet at court.
Page 153 - Earl, to make plain to the world the great love he bare to her while alive, and what a grief the loss of so virtuous a lady was to his tender heart, caused (though the thing, by these and other means, was beaten into the heads of the principal men of the University of Oxford) her body to be re-buried in St Mary's church in Oxford, with great pomp and solemnity.