 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1839 - 548 pàgines
...Ye may believe it as much as you list, for I only tell you what men here generally say and do talk. The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham. " If I could have tarried in Coleyn, I would have sought out them, and written now to you what certain... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1849 - 306 pàgines
...1477, he himself relates that he went to " the jubilee and pardon at the holy apostle St. James in B Spain, which was the year of Grace a thousand cccc....makes this remark, " The Three Kings be not so rich, I helieve, as was the Lady of Walsingham." Ibid. Tombs running- with oil. — Matthew Paris (History,... | |
 | Henry Harrod - 1857 - 398 pàgines
...importance ; but there are certain distinctive characteristics of each style, which I submit it is very * Roger Ascham, when visiting Cologne in 1550, makes...rich, I believe, as was the Lady of 'Walsingham." — Notes \p the Pilgrimage of Eraimta, by JG Nichols, p. 242. important should not be suffered to... | |
 | 1857 - 754 pàgines
...sedet .' adeo gemmis, auro aryentoquf nitent omnia ' Reger Ascbam, when at Cologne in 1550, writes, — 'The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsinsham.' Many of our sovereigns made journeys to the Lady of Wid-ingham. Henry III. was here in... | |
 | Roger Ascham, Giles Ascham - 1865 - 302 pàgines
...Ye may believe it as much as you list, for I only tell you what men here generally say and do talk. The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham. If I could have tarried in Colen, I would have sought out then, and written now to you, what certain... | |
 | 1886 - 768 pàgines
...Ascham (the author of the "Schoolmaster" and tutor of Lady Jane) visiting Cologne in 1550, remarks, " The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham." The relic of the Virgin's milk was preserved, according to the tradition, on the high altar in the... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 pàgines
...Canterbury. Cf. Erasmus. Colloq. Peregrinatio religionis ergo. Ascham, visiting Cologne in 1550, says : ' The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham ' : the wealth of the shrine at Cologne being then valued at about six millions of francs (^240,000).... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 pàgines
...Canterbury. Cf. Erasmus. Colloq. Peregrinatio religionis ergo. Ascham, visiting Cologne in 1550, says: ' The Three Kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham,' the wealth of the shrine at Cologne being then valued at about six millions of francs. ( £240,000.)"... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1920 - 474 pàgines
...stones. Visiting Cologne , and the famous shrine of the wise men of the East, Roger Ascham writes : " The three kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham." * People came in crowds ; many among the British kings came too ; 3 the road leading to Walsingham... | |
 | 1922 - 384 pàgines
...you would say it was the seat of the saints, it is all so glittering with jewels, gold and silver."48 "The three kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham," wrote Ascham (c. 1550). The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 returned the annual income of the priory from... | |
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Owing to innumerable gifts the place was resplendent with gold and precious stones. Visiting Cologne , and the famous shrine of the wise men of the East, Roger Ascham writes : " The three kings be not so rich, I believe, as was the Lady of Walsingham. 
