England's Topographer, Or, A New and Complete History of the County of Kent: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time : Including Every Modern Improvement, Volume 1Geo. Virtue, 1828 |
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abbey abbot acres adjoining afterwards aisles ancient appears appointed arch Archbishop archiepiscopal Augustine Augustine's became Birchington bishop borough Britain Britons buried Cæsar called Canterbury castle cathedral chancel chapel Christ Church Cinque Ports consequence continued court crown Danes daughter deanery died diocese of Canterbury dissolution Dover east East Langdon ecclesiastic edifice Edward Edward III Elizabeth England erected Ethelbert Fordwich formerly gate granted held Henry VIII hospital inhabitants island Isle of Thanet John jurisdiction king king's land Lanfranc latter London Lord manor mansion Margate mentioned mile Minster monarch monastery monks Nonington palace parish period pope possessed prelate present primate prince prior Queen Ramsgate Reculver reign of Henry remained repaired residence Richard Richard II Richborough Roman royal Saint Sandwich Saxons side Stonar stone Stour subsequently thence Thomas tion tithes tower town Twitham vested vicarage wall whole William Wingham
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Page 257 - ... of the existing grant or grants of the said office," did, by letters patent under his archiepiscopal seal, dated the...
Page 579 - I saw yt by candel withyn, and there were conys. Yt was so straite that I had no mynd to crepe far yn. In the north side of the castel ys a hedde in the walle, now sore defaced with wether. They cawle it Quene Bertha hedde. Nere to that place, hard by the wal was a pot of Romayne mony fownd.
Page 339 - Metropolitan who understood the Church excellently, and had almost rescued it out of the hands of the Calvinian party, and very much subdued the unruly spirit of the nonconformists ; countenanced men of the greatest parts in learning, and disposed the clergy to a more solid course of study than they had been accustomed to ; and if he had lived, would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva...
Page 268 - Britain, be ever after in the city of Canterbury; and we make a perpetual and unchangeable decree, that all provinces of the realm of England be for ever subject to the metropolitical church of that place.
Page 662 - White and others, to hold as of his manor of East Greenwich, by fealty only, in free and common socage, and not in capite, or by knight's service.
Page 340 - Abbot brought none of this antidote with him, and considered Christian religion no otherwise, than as it abhorred and reviled popery, and valued those men most, who did that most furiously. For the strict observation of the discipline of the church, or the conformity to the articles or canons established, he made little inquiry, and took less care ; and having himself made a very little progress in the ancient and solid study of divinity, he adhered only ° to the doctrine of Calvin, and, for his...
Page 179 - All the monasteries of my realm/ saith king Edgar, in his charter to the abbey of Malmesbury d, dated in the year of Christ 974, * to * the sight are nothing but worm-eaten and * rotten timber and boards.' And that upon the Norman conquest such timber fabrics grew out of use, and gave place to stone buildings raised upon arches ; a form of structure introduced by that nation, furnished with stone from Caen, in Normandy. * In the * year 1087 (Stow's words of the cathedral of b P.
Page 343 - School, whence he removed to St. John's College, Oxford, of which he became fellow in 1613.
Page 579 - The walles the which remayn theryet be in compase almost as much as the Tower of London. They have bene very hye, thykke, stronge, and wel embateled. The mater of them is flynt, mervelus, and long brykes, both white and redde, after the Briton's fascion.
Page 521 - In much weakness the God of Might did bless, With increase of Store, Not to Maintain Pride nor Idleness, But to relieve the Poor, Such industrious Poor as truly fear the Lord, (Meek ) Of ( Humble and > according to his Word, ( Quiet Spirit. ) Glory to God alone.