Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Nide 3

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Sussex Archaeological Society, 1850
 

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Sivu 209 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Sivu 145 - Pepys had educated in all sorts of useful learning, sending him to travel abroad, from whence he returned with extraordinary accomplishments, and worthy to be heir. Mr. Pepys had been for near forty years so much my particular friend, that Mr. Jackson sent me complete mourning, desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent obsequies ; but my indisposition hindered me from doing him this last office.
Sivu 126 - Another sort have round crowns, sometimes with one kind of band, sometimes with another, now black, now white, now russet, now red, now green, now yellow, now this, now that, never content with one colour or fashion two days to an end.
Sivu 153 - ... no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will abhor One way and long another for ; Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin. Rather than fail they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.
Sivu 204 - The persons that cast the lead into fodders, plucked up all the seats in the choir, wherein the monks sat when they said service ; which were like to the seats in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithall...
Sivu 154 - Quaerit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti ; Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, Difilcilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, censor castigatorque minorum.
Sivu 170 - ... other qualifications, as they rendered him equal to his office, so they made him an agreeable and valuable companion, and had so much endeared and well recommended him to a bishop, that at the age of fifty he was provided with a handsome income of twenty-three pounds a year; . which, however, he could not make any great figure with, because he lived in a dear country, and was a little encumbered with a wife and six children.
Sivu 204 - Commission commaudeth me to pull down to the ground all the walls of the churches, steeples, cloisters, frater-houses, dormitories, chapter-houses, with all other houses, saving them that be necessary for a farmer.
Sivu 163 - Preservation of Pheasants and Partridges," passed in 1581, which states, "Whereas the game of pheasants and partridges is within these few years past in manner utterly decayed and destroyed in all parts of this realm, by means of such as take them with nets, snares, and other engines and devices, as well by day as by night ; and also by such as do use hawking in the beginning of harvest, before the young pheasants and partridges be of any bigness, to the great spoil and hurt of corn and grass then...
Sivu 147 - What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost...

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