Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester

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Chetham Society., 1845
 

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Page 119 - Cowell) is a benefice that, being void is commended to the charge and care of some sufficient clerk, to be supplied, until it may be conveniently provided of a pastor.
Page 182 - he was a person of a most pious life, exemplary conversation, of great charity, hospitality, and so zealous a man for the Church of England, that he was accounted, by precise persons, Popishly affected, and a Papist in masquerade.
Page 65 - Confirming, or pretending to confirm, her father's Foundation, and desiring that the same " may be honourably endowed for the praise and honour of Almighty God( and that He may be worshipped in the same daily, according to her father's original intention, that the holy Gospel of Christ may be preached constantly and purely, that for the increase of Christian faith and piety the youth of the kingdom may be constantly instructed there in good learning, that hospitality may be exercised by the Dean...
Page 58 - Burnet, who styles her a wise and worthy woman, says, that "She was more likely to have maintained the post (of Protector) than either of her brothers," according to a saying that went of her, " That those who wore breeches, deserved petticoats better; but if those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster.
Page 14 - Wilkins's soft interpretation of the terms of conformity," vol. ip 346. Vide also Life of Adam Martindale, p. 196, in confirmation of this statement. "He was no great read man," says Aubrey, " but one of much and deepe thinkeing, and of a working head, and a prudent man as well as ingeniose. He was a lustie, strong growne, well sett, broad shouldered person, cheerful and hospitable . He was extremely well beloved in his Diocese.
Page 67 - Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, says — " It were very expedient to remember the poor Scholars of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, for if they be not maintained, all learning and virtue will decay, and a very barbary shall brast in among us, and at the last, bring this our realm to destruction. We see daily many good wits compelled, from lack of exhibition, to forsake the Universities and to become serving men.
Page 293 - Sir John de Davenport Knt. granted by Deed, dated Sunday next after the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, in the year 1390, four messuages and sixty acres of land, in the vill of Merton, to maintain a fit Priest celebrating mass in the Chapel of Merton, for the souls of himself, his parents, and successors, and all faithful people deceased, for ever. A Chapel was erected here, however, prior to this donation, by Sir John Davenport, in the reign of Edward III.
Page 14 - Master of Trinity, Camb.1 called the Decalogist. He was born in 1614, and in 1627 was entered of New Inn, Oxford, but removed to Magdalen Hall, where he graduated. On the breaking out of the Rebellion he took the Covenant, and in 1648 was created BD and made Warden of Wadham College by the Presbyterian Committee for the Reformation of the University. He afterwards subscribed to the Engagement, and complied with the various changes of the times, though apparently steadily attached to the Monarchy....
Page 15 - The first of these waa in all respects the greatest divine of the age : a man of great learning, strong reason, and of a clear judgment. He was a judicious and grave preacher, more instructive than affective; and a man of a spotless life, and of an excellent temper.
Page 15 - He was not active in his diocese, but too remiss and easy in his episcopal function ; and was a much better divine than a bishop. He was a speaking instance of what a great man could fall to : for his memory went from him so entirely, that he became a child some years before he died...

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