Charter-House, its foundation and history1849 - 120 pages |
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2nd 3rd 4th 3rd 4th 5th 4th 5th 6th appointed Archbishop of Canterbury Arithmetic Assembly attended Berwick Bridge Bishop of London Bowen boys building Buslingthorpe Camb Carthusians Chamber Chapel charity Charter Charter-House School Charterhouse Square Church Class Class Class Classics College Court ditto Dudley Duke of Norfolk Earl elected Elizabeth erected establishment executors Founder girls Goswell Street Governors of Charter-House Grammar Henry History honour Hospital House Humphrey Middlemore infants John Hutton John Law Joseph Henshaw King James King's Latin Letters Patent Lord Bishop Majesty manor and estate Master of Merton MEDALLISTS Merton Coll Monastery officers ORATORS Oxon pensioners persons Poor Brothers Preacher present Queen received Scholar of Ball Scholar of Trin Scholar of Wadham school-master servants statutes Student of Ch Testament THOMAS CHARTERHOUSE Thomas Sutton thousand pounds tion Usher vernors Wadham Coll Walter de Manny William
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Page 36 - William the Third, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To our trusty and well...
Page 11 - And now at the last, at mine exhortation and instigation, constantly moved and finally persuaded his brethren to surrender their house, lands, and goods into the king's hands, and to trust only to his mercy and grace. I beseech you, my lord, that the said Prior may be so entreated by your help that he be not sorry and repent that he hath feared and followed your sore words and my gentle exhortations made unto him to surrender his said house...
Page 10 - God, as it may appear to you by this bill enclosed, whereof, considering their behaviour and the whole matter, I am not sorry, but would that all such as love not the king's highness and his worldly honour were in like case.
Page 35 - God one thousand six hundred and eighty, return or come into or within any of the Kingdoms or dominions aforesaid, That then he, the said James, Duke of York, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of High Treason, and shall suffer the pains, penalties and forfeitures as in cases of High Treason ; and further, that if any person or persons...
Page 88 - I took a walk in the Charter-house. I wondered that all the squares and buildings, and especially the school-boys, looked so little : but this is easily accounted for. I was little myself when I was at school, and measured all about me by myself.
Page 9 - Carthusians*, which ho had built, at his own expense, without the walls of London. His funeral was attended by the king, his children, and the barons and prelates of England.
Page 56 - ... and be executed in all things according to the true intent and meaning thereof, under the several pains forfeitures and penalties...
Page 57 - Brethren they determined that they would have there "no rogues or common beggars, but such poor persons as could bring good testimony of their good behaviour and soundness in religion, and such as had been servants to the King's Majesty, either decrepid or old ; captains either at sea or land; soldiers maimed or impotent; decayed merchants; men fallen into decay through shipwreck, casualty of fire, or such evil accident ; those that had been captives under the Turks...
Page 35 - ... the upholding, maintaining, and repairing of bridges, whereby his Majesty's subjects, and all persons whatsoever, out of all parts of his Highness's realms of England and Scotland, may daily travel and commerce one with another : And we being given to understand that Berwick Bridge, upon the river Tweed, which is the chiefest passage between both kingdoms, is very much ruinated, or rather utterly decayed, and will cost a very great sum of money (which, as the necessity of the times is, cannot...
Page 82 - no children whose parents have any estate in lands to leave unto them, but only the children of poor men that want means to bring them up.