The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery: The Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow |
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Page 30 - AND FURTHERMORE, of our special Grace, and of our certain Knowledge and mere Motion, we have given and granted, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant...
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Page 192 - Picardy, and shall read you off a short tale that struck me. Thomas de Saint Valery was travelling with his wife, Adela, daughter of a count de Ponthieu. They were attacked near a forest by eight armed men. St. Valery, after a severe struggle, was seized, bound, and thrown into a thicket. His wife was carried off, exposed to the brutality of the banditti, and afterwards dismissed in a state of nudity. She, however, sought for, and found her husband, and they returned together. They were soon after...
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Page 224 - II. who remembered, and was desirous of recovering them, made many inquiries about them after the Restoration. At last he was told by one Rogers...
Page 13 - to the severity with which the founders of religious orders have always prohibited every species of unnecessary intercourse between their female disciples and persons of the other sex. To prevent it entirely was impracticable. The functions of the sacred ministry...
Page 225 - The King discovered himself, on which she produced some more pictures which she seldom showed. The King desired her to set her price ; she said she did not care to make a price with his majesty, she would leave it to him ; but promised to look over her husband's books and let his majesty know what prices his father the late King had paid.
Page 11 - Daughter," he observed to her, " the spouse, whom you have chosen, delights not " in external pomp. It is the heart which he demands.
Page 118 - Here, by a very happy 23 thought, his grace has exhibited the titles of the lost Greek and Roman authors, so as to form a very pleasing deception, and to give at the same time a curious catalogue of the cmthores deperditi.
Page 29 - These priories were cells of the religious houses in England which belonged to foreign monasteries : for, when manors or tithes were given to foreign convents, the monks, either to increase their own rule, or rather to have faithful stewards of their revenues, built a small convent here for the reception of such a number 35 they thought proper, and constituted priors over them.