Supplement to Court Leet Records: Vol. 1. A.d. 1550-1624, Containing Glossary of Select Terms, Notes on Syntax and Dialect, and Indexes, Volum 1

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Cox & Sharland, 1908 - 46 pàgines
 

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Pàgina xxix - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Pàgina lxxxix - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Pàgina xc - Malory, M. d'A. (Sommer) I, xvi, 60, It is better that we slee a coward than thorow a coward alle we to be slayne. 1534 St. Th. More, Wks. (1557) 1215 Ag, to haue that good purpose al their life, semeth me no more harme . . . , than a poore begger that hath neuer a peny, to thinke that yf he had great substaunce, he would gene almose.
Pàgina lxxxi - I told him, as certainly as there was a chief priest, and Jews, and Pilate there outwardly, so certainly was Christ persecuted by them, and did suffer there outwardly under them. Yet from this man's words was a slander raised upon us, that the Quakers...
Pàgina l - A taffeta woven with a pile like that of velvet, arranged in tufts or spots.' — CD 94. 28 Adam Scriuener. An evident allusion to Chaucer's poem. 94. 32 Wee be men and no Infidells. This contains a suggestion of the contempt and abuse commonly heaped upon the unpopular London watch. They were called anything but men, least of all Christians. 95. 12 brash. Brace. 95. 18 the...
Pàgina xxix - Tuesday was the principal day. Hock Monday was for the men, and Hock Tuesday for the women. On both days the men and women alternately, with great merriment, intercepted the public roads with ropes, and pulled passengers to them, from whom they exacted money to be laid out for pious uses; Monday probably having been originally kept as only the vigil or introduction to the festival of Hock-day.
Pàgina xxix - it was also a popular festival signalised by the collection of money for parish purposes by roughly humorous methods.
Pàgina cxxviii - ... Acropolis, and broke off portable fragments of the sculptures. In 1749, when the west pediment was drawn by R. Dalton, many figures still remained in position which had disappeared before the time of Lord Elgin. Several portions also of the frieze, which were seen by Stuart (1752), had disappeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century. On the other hand, the east pediment, being inaccessible, suffered no important change between 1674 and 1800. An account has already been given above of the...
Pàgina cvii - ... that every Ale brewer that typpleth ! in theire housses shall sell owt of Dores a quarte of ale for a ob2 and that theye warne [ie refuse] none to have Ale for theire money so theye have yt in theire houses vpon payne of ev"y suche defaulte, so yt be presentid to Mr. maire or to any Alderman i2d.

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