Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, Volume 8

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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 329 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children...
Page 182 - ... Charles I ; so frugal in his personal habits that the stipend of one of his curates would have provided for him ; and so charitable that, out of one of the best benefices in England, he scarcely left behind him one year's income, and that for the most part to pious uses.
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 30 - having by his eloquent exhortations obtained a celebrity which no head of the College had, perhaps, ever before enjoyed." — Dr.H. Ware's Hist. Coll. Ch. of Manchester. His celebrated Sermon on the death of Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh, may furnish a clue to his extraordinary popularity, and is a good specimen of his style of preaching. He became Rector of West Kirkby in 1696, when he resigned the Vicarage of Garstang, to which he had been presented by Silvester Richmond in 1684, and in 1697 married...
Page 200 - At the Dissolution, the Rectory and Advowson of the Vicarage were granted by Henry VIII. to Richard Wilbraham of Woodhey, whose descendant, Grace, eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Wilbraham Bart.
Page 293 - 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.
Page 258 - Feb. 17. 1687. I admonished the Inhabitants of Hulme Chapel, in the Consistory, of their riotous shutting up the Chapel doors, on 6 Febr. being Sunday, the King's anniversary day of inauguration ; and enjoined them penance for the same, to be performed and certified against the next court day.
Page 15 - The first of these was 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 695 affective ; and a man of a spotless life, and of an excellent temper.
Page 291 - ... transubstantiation of the wafer into the body of Christ, which appears on the altar, in place of the host. The figure of the Roman Pontiff, represented as kneeling before the altar, seems to be intended to pourtray Pope Gregory the Great ; it is related that the miracle thus depicted was wrought by his prayers, in order to remove the disbelief of a Roman matron in Transubstantiation.

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