Gentleman's Magazine Library: Bedfordshire. Berkshire. BuckinghamshireE. Stock, 1891 - England |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbey Abingdon aged ancient anno antiquity appears argent arms Aylesbury Bart Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Biggleswade Bishop Bishop of Lincoln brass Browne Willis Buckingham Buckinghamshire building buried Castle chancel chapel chevron church churchyard Cumner daughter died Donnington Castle Duke Dunstable Earl east end Edward Edward III effigies Elizabeth engrailed erected feet Fenny Stratford fess formerly Francis George gules head Henry Henry VIII Herne's Oak Hill honour Hurley impaling inscription King knight Lady late Lord Lovelace manor mansion marble married Mary memory miles monument nave Newport Pagnel north side north wall obiit ornamented Oxford panels parish Park Pitchcott plate pointed arch present probably Quarrendon Queen rector reign remains residence Richard roof sable Saxon seat shield south aisle south side south wall stone Stony Stratford tablet Thomas tomb tower town tree village west end wife William Windsor Windsor Castle Witham
Popular passages
Page 316 - The chancel is separated from the body of the church by a fine piece of carved work, consisting of small open twisted columns with...
Page 222 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 46 - ... the proportion of three to one. And he proves that the human race was not less prolific in his age than in elder times, by the epitaph of Dame Honeywood, of Charing in Kent, who had, at her decease. 367 children lawfully descended from her; and by that of a woman in Dunstable Church, 'who bore at three several times three children at a birth, and five at a birth two other times.
Page 217 - That gentleman, if he had taken any trouble, might have ascertained that the tree in question was cut down one morning, by order of King George III., when in a state of great, but transient, excitement : the circumstance caused much regret and astonishment at the time, and was commented on in the newspapers. The oak which Mr. Jesse would decorate with Shakspearian honours stands at a considerable distance from the real Simon Pure. Every old woman in Windsor knows all about the facts.
Page 140 - They're past."] 3 [Our life is ever on the wing, And death is ever nigh; The moment when our lives begin We all begin to die...
Page 333 - Lee is said to have lost 3,000 sheep at Quarrendon, besides other cattle. It is probable that, at that period, the number of sheep kept there might be more considerable in proportion to heavier stock than of late years; and Drayton, after mentioning the glebe and pasturage of the Vale of Aylesbury, adds, " That as her grain and grass, so she her sheep doth breed For burden, and for bone, all others that exceed !" — Polyolbion. The only dates remaining upon the monuments are those of 1573, the period...
Page 196 - Alexander — Quarterly, first and fourth, Azure, three Fleurs-de-Lis, Or ; second and third, Gules, three Annulets, Or, Stoned, Azure, the whole within a Double Tressure, Flowered and Counterflowered of the first. Difference, an Escutcheon, charged with a sword and Lance, Salterwise. Chief Seats were at Newtown Ardes and Mount Alexander, near Comber, in the county of Down ; and at Dunskey Castle, in the...
Page 208 - ... of eighteen pounds per annum and clothes : the chief institution of so magnificent a foundation is, that they should say their daily prayers to God for the king's safety, and the happy administration of the kingdom, to which purpose they attend the service, meeting twice every day at chapel. The left side of this court is ornamented...
Page 148 - ... on horseback or on foot. Nor would I have you to think any inequality of person between us, I being issued of as great a race and noble house every way as yourself. So, assigning me an indifferent place, I will there maintain my words, and the lie which I gave you, and which you should not endure if you have any courage at all in you.