Letters, Archaeological and Historical: Relating to the Isle of Wight, Volume 1H. Frowde, 1896 - Isle of Wight (England) |
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Abbey afterwards alien priories ancient appears Archbishop Baldwin de Redvers barons became Bede belonging Benedictine Bishop borough Britain brother Cadwalla called Canon Canterbury Carisbrooke Castle charter Christian Church of England Cistercian clergy College Conqueror Crown daughter death diocese Duke Earl early ecclesiastical Edward III Elizabeth English faith France French Godshill granted Hallam heathen held Henry Henry VIII Hist historian honour Isabella de Fortibus Island Isle of Wight Jutes Jutish Kent King king's kingdom knights labour Lady land Latin lived London Lord lordship manor married missionaries monasteries monastic monks Newport Norman Conquest Normandy Oxford papal parish Parliament period Pope possession priest Quarr Queen Redvers Reformation reign of Edward religious Richard Richard de Redvers Roman Rome saint Saxon Chronicle says Templars thirteenth century Thomas town Welsh Wessex West Saxons Wilfrid William Winchester word Worsley writer Yaverland
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Page 646 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 593 - Here they should feed on fat beef and mutton, till nothing but their fulness should stint their stomachs; yea, they should feed on the labours of their own hands, enjoying a proportionable profit of their pains to themselves ; their beds should be good, and their bedfellows better, seeing the richest yeomen in England would not disdain to marry their daughters unto them...
Page 679 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields, and we not see't?
Page 150 - The clergy, contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the sacraments; and a person who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind of food. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, went not to church in the morning after the manner of Christians, but merely, in a careless manner, heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers,...
Page 113 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 365 - In the stead of long fronts of venerable colleges, of stately walks beneath immemorial elms, history plunges us into the mean and filthy lanes of a mediaeval town. Thousands of boys, huddled in bare lodging-houses, clustering round teachers as poor as themselves in church porch and house porch, drinking, quarrelling, dicing, begging at the corners of the streets, take the place of the brightly-coloured train of doctors and Heads. Mayor and Chancellor struggled in vain to enforce order or peace on...
Page 629 - ... cannot be resisted on the coast of England, without a fleet to impeach it; no, nor on the coast of France, or any other country ; except every creek, port, or sandy bay, had a powerful army, in each of them, to make opposition.
Page 627 - If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us ! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us ! DECEMBER 27, 1831.
Page 40 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 629 - ... fleet to head towards it; I say, that notwithstanding this provision, if the enemy, setting sail from the Isle of Wight, in the first watch of the night, and towing their long boats at their sterns, shall arrive by dawn of day at the...