Analecta Eboracensia: Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York

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C.J. Clark, 1897 - 332 pągines

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Pągina 201 - ... barbarity. His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Pągina 178 - York-place, that's past For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost : "Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall.
Pągina 113 - Hugh, and others our liegemen have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever: 1.
Pągina 34 - There was on the east side of the city, a church dedicated to the honour of St. Martin, built whilst the Romans were still in the island, wherein the queen, who, as has been said before, was a Christian, used to pray.
Pągina 171 - Chantry . — Chantries were small buildings, originally founded, and endowed with land and other revenues, for the maintenance of one or more priests to say daily mass for the souls of the founder and his relations, or other benefactors. A chantry...
Pągina 24 - When the work was drawing to its completion, he sent messengers to Gaul to bring over glassmakers (a kind of workman hitherto unknown in Britain) to glaze the windows of the church, and its aisles* and chancels. And so it happened that when they came they not only accomplished that particular work which was required of them, but from this time they caused the English nation to understand and learn this kind of handicraft...
Pągina 42 - And, if it please your wisdom, I will send some of our youths, who may obtain thence whatever is necessary, and bring back into France the flowers of Britain ; that the garden of Paradise may not be confined to York, but that some of its scions may be transplanted to Tours.
Pągina 36 - Minervam tela tenent. saevit medio in certamine Mavors 700 caelatus ferro, tristesque ex aethere Dirae, et scissa gaudens vadit Discordia palla, quam cum sanguineo sequitur Bellona flagello.
Pągina 276 - Forasmuch as merchants which heretofore have lent their goods to divers persons be greatly impoverished because there is no speedy law provided for them to have recovery of their debts at the day of payment assigned ; and by reason hereof many merchants have withdrawn to come into this realm with their merchandises, to the damage as well of the merchants as of the whole realm...
Pągina 132 - Oprindelse saaledes: .,Cum enim aliquis accipiebat pręfecturam wapentagii, die constituto oonveniebant omnes majores contra eum in loco. ubi soliti erant congregari, et, descendente eo de equo suo, omnes assurgebant contra eum et ipse erigebat lanceam suam in altum, et omnes de lanceis suis tangebant hastam eius, et sic confirmabant se sibi. Et de armis, quia arma vocant wappa, et taccare, quod est confirmare.

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