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Page 252 - This Book of Articles before rehearsed is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Page 73 - ... and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Page 220 - This is particularly observable in the passage through the hall to the back part, where the side posts are all finely carved, as well as the arches over the door ways. Large wooden buttresses, bearing an exact resemblance to the stone ones of the early style of English architecture, are also peculiar to this part of the building. On the north side, there ie' part of a very beautiful pointed stone structure, which probably was originally intended for a chapel.
Page 230 - It has already outlived two bodies, and bids fair, from the excellence of its preservation, to maintain an equal period with its present companion. It is a very handsome Pointed structure, and probably was erected about the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century.
Page 22 - Oaks have been found of 20, 30, and 35 yards long, yet wanting many yards at the small end, some of which have been sold for 4, 8, 10, and £15. a piece, which are as black as ebony, and very lasting and durable.
Page 148 - They were published at various times, but reprinted in 2 vols. folio; and with Lowth on the Prophets, Arnald on the Apocrypha, and Whitby on the New Testament, have been published in folio, and very recently in 4to. as a regular commentary upon all the sacred books. The style of this prelate is even and easy, his compositions rational, and full of good and sound sfiist'.
Page 21 - Besides these, three other canoes, resembling the above in construction, have been found in the same county.— One, in a pasture, near the river Trent, not far from Gainsborough; and two, in cutting a drain through the fens below Lincoln. One of these is deposited in the British Museum.— All these canoes are remarkable for the free grain of the oak timber, so that the millwrights and carpenters who examined it declared, that in their opinion it was of a foreign growth, and the produce of a wanner...
Page 21 - ... does produce ; as firs, oaks, birch, beech, yew, thorn, willow, ash, &c. the roots of all or most of which stand in the soil in their natural position, as thick as ever they could grow, as the trunks of most of them lie by their proper roots. Most of the large trees...
Page 253 - Apostle, and that the same governors be and shall be hereafter in deed fact and name one body corporate and politic of themselves for ever, by the name of the Governors of the possessions revenues and goods of the...
Page 22 - The ashes are as soft as earth, and are commonly cut in pieces by the workman's spades, which as soon as flung up Into the open air, fall away into dust; but all the rest, even the willows themselves, which are softer than ashes, preserve their substance and texture to this day. I have seen some fir trees...