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Page 83 - Paul's, there are fifty-two goldsmith's shops, so rich and full of silver vessels, great and small, that in all the shops in Milan, Rome, Venice, and Florence put together, I do not think there would be found so many of the magnificence that are to be seen in London.
Page 50 - Bokenham, gentilman, and others to the number of fifty persons, armed with swords, glayvcs, bows and arrows, and addressed them as follows: ' Maister Twyer, ye be a justice of the pees, and I require you to kepe the pees, for I woll nott leve the possession of this castell to dye therefore, and if ye begyn to breke the peas or make any warre to gete the place of me I shall defende me, for lever I had in suche wyse to dye than to be slayne when my husbond cometh home, for he charget me to kepe it.
Page 20 - Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause " two dubbed knights, or the most worthy esquires, the most expert in feats of arms, and no others ; and of every city, two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
Page 109 - Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Page 25 - Thorpe, such slender memorials remain, as it is so much more agreeable to relate what is honourable than what is disgraceful to human nature — to praise rather than to condemn; but I find from my laborious researches, that while a Chancellor is going on in the equal and satisfactory discharge of his duty, little notice is taken of him, and that he is only made prominent by biographers and historians when he takes bribes, perverts the law, violates the constitution, oppresses the innocent, and brings...
Page 24 - ... and during four years and a half he presided in the Court of Chancery, to the general contentment of the people. Lord Coke, speaking of him and his predecessor, says with honest pride : — " In perusing the rolls of parliament in the times of these Lord Chancellors, we find no complaint at all of any proceeding before them. But soon after, when a Chancellor was no professor of the law, we find a grievous complaint by the whole body of the realm, and a petition that the most wise and able men...
Page 67 - Most of the poets that immediately succeeded Chaucer, seem rather relapsing into barbarism, than availing themselves of those striking ornaments which his judgment and imagination had disclosed.
Page 101 - Oldeborne bridge and Fleete bridge into the Thames, had been of such breadth and depth, that ten or twelve ships...
Page 86 - ... the yard at the lowest price, and yet is there not enough of one cloth and colour to serve you: and as for to be purveyed in Suffolk, it will not be purveyed not now against the time, without they had had warning at Michaelmas, as I am informed : and the blessed Trinity have you in his keeping. Written at Norwich, on St.