The history of the town of Northampton; with an account of its public buildings and institutions, eminent men, members of parliament, mayors & bailiffs and the most remarkable events that have taken place in the townFreeman and Son, 1847 - 112 Seiten |
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Seite 38 - I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the compliment implied in this speech, and was almost ready to answer, Perhaps, my good Friend, they may find me unintelligible too for the same reason.
Seite 38 - On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired to speak with me. I ordered him in. A plain, decent, elderly figure made its appearance, and being desired to sit, spoke as follows ; " Sir, I am clerk of the parish of All-saints in Northampton ; brother of Mr C.
Seite 38 - Cox the statuary, who, everybody knows, is a first-rate maker of verses. He surely is the man of all the world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.
Seite 38 - Cox, the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in my office to annex to a bill of mortality, which he publishes at Christmas, a copy of verses. You will do me a great favour, Sir, if you would furnish me with one.
Seite 42 - Church, that a penoa accused of any crime, intending to clear himself by Canonical purgation, should do it here, and in no other place of the town, having first performed his vigil and prayers, in the said Church the evening before."* Hence it appears that this Church was invested * Bridges
Seite 101 - In wedlock bands all ye who join ; with hands your hearts unite ; So shall our tuneful tongues combine to laud the nuptial rite.
Seite 105 - I to the Church the living call, and to the grave do summon all, AR 1728.
Seite 67 - Northampton, is commonly reputed to have been 130 years of age when he died. There is no register so old in the parish where he was christened ; but the oldest people, of which...
Seite 65 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Seite 42 - ... this consists of three receding arches, each charged, both in elevation and soffit, with zigzag mouldings. On each side of the archway are three pilaster columns, some of which are ornamented with spiral and lozenge mouldings.