The History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading in Berkshire: With Some Notices of the Most Considerable Places in the Same CountyC. Ingalls, 1835 - 298 páginas |
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Abbey Abbot Abbot and Convent aldermen ancient annual annum appertenances appointed arch Archbishop Archbishop Laud bells bequeathed Bishop Bishop of Salisbury borough building burgesses called Caversham chancel chapel charge charity Charles charter Cholsey church churchwardens clerk Coates corporation court Earl Edward elected Elizabeth England erected expence Forbury formerly friars gift Giles gilt granted Henry VIII HISTORY OF READING inhabitants Item John John Blagrave John Thorne Kennet King King's lands Lane Lawrence Lawrence's Leominster London Lord manor Mary Mary's master mayor ment monastery monks nearly north side Oxford paid Palmer Pangbourn parish of St period persons piece poor possessed pounds present privileges Queen Radynge Reading Abbey received rectory reign religious rent Richard river Kennet Robert Robert Hay scholars shillings Shinfield silver south side Steward street tenement Thackham Thames Thatcham Tilehurst tion vicar vicarage Watlington Whitley William
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Página 103 - Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Página 70 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that, in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Página 98 - presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. I have been your physician to cure you of your squeasy stomach, and here, as I deserve, I demand my fee for the same.
Página 124 - Lit. He was a baker, sir, but he does dream now and see visions ; he has given over his trade. Quar. I remember that too ; out of a scruple he took that, in spiced conscience, those cakes he made, were served to bridales, maypoles, morrices, and such profane feasts and meetings. His Christian name is Zeal-of-the-land. Lit. Yes, sir ; Zeal-of-the-land Busy.
Página 97 - King Henry VIII., as he was hunting in Windsor Forest, either casually lost, or (more probably) wilfully losing himself, struck down about dinner time to the Abbey of Reading, where, disguising himself (much, for delight, more for discovery, to see, unseen), he was invited to the abbot's table, and passed for one of the king's guard ; a place to which the proportion of his person might properly entitle him. A sirloin of beef was set before him (so knighted, saith tradition, by this king Henry...
Página 138 - Huggins was the first person who brought the art of clock making to any perfection ; and the first pendulum clock made in England, was in the year 1662, by Fromantil, a Dutchman.
Página 43 - Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Reading in the county of Berks.
Página 286 - Kennet, which crosses the town near the centre. The principal streets are disposed nearly in the shape of the Roman Y, the angles branching off from the marketplace ; and the foot of the letter being formed by the village of Speenhamland.
Página 13 - ... it was the cause of his and their discomfort ; for he poured in so much, that when he came into the place in...
Página 98 - Tower, kept close prisoner, fed for a short time with bread and water ; yet not so empty his body of food, as his mind was filled with fears, creating many suspicions to himself when and how he had incurred the King's displeasure. At last a...