Antiquarian Jottings: Relating to Bromley, Hayes Keston, and West Wickham, in KentSurrey, The author, 1889 - 191 Seiten |
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ancient Anno appears arch Archæologia Archbishop of Canterbury Beckenham Beeby bell bell-cot Bishop of Rochester blue ledger-stone brass Bromley Church Bromley College Bromley Hill building built buried camp Canterbury chancel chapel Chaplain Chatham Church Field churchwardens daughter died Earl earthworks east Easter Sepulchre Edward Elizabeth engraving Farnaby feet flint formerly fragments gilt ground Hasted's Hayes Church Hayes Common Hayes Place Henry Henry VIII Heydon Holwood implements inches IOHN Item ij John John Lennard John Osteler Kent Keston Keston Church King land latten Lennard London Lord lyeth manor marble monument nave Norman north aisle original ornamented paintings panels Parish Church Parish Register pebbles Pitt possessed present probably Rector Registrum Roffense remains Robert Roman Scott sepulchre side silver south aisle Stephen Scott stone Sundridge Thomas Toots Wood tower vestment wall Warner West Wickham Wickham Court widows wife William
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 87 - ... to hang up any more for the future. Yet notwithstanding, several people, unwilling to forsake their ancient and delightful custom, continued still the making of them, and they were carried at the funerals, as before, to the grave, and put therein upon the coffin over the face of the dead ; this I have seen done in many places.** 6arritfe pap*. No. XXVII. [From the
Seite 77 - But virtue would not suffer her to be childless : an infant, to whom and to whose father she had been nurse (such is the uncertainty of temporal prosperity), became dependent upon strangers for the necessaries of life ; to him she afforded the protection of a mother. This parental charity was returned with filial affection ; and she was supported in the feebleness of age, by him whom she had cherished in the helplessness of infancy.
Seite 77 - Near this Place lies the Body of ELIZABETH MONK, "Who departed this Life On the 27th Day of August, 1753, Aged 101 : She was the Widow of JOHN MONK, late of...
Seite 138 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.
Seite 86 - I have seen) made after the following manner, viz. the lower rim or circlet was a broad hoop of wood, whereunto was fixed, at the sides thereof, part of two other hoops crossing each other at the top, at right angles, which formed the upper part, being about one-third longer than the width ; these hoops were wholly covered with artificial flowers of paper, dyed horn, or silk, and more or less beauteous, according to the skill or ingenuity of the performer.
Seite 76 - Time, who is impatient to date my last paper, will shortly moulder the hand that is now writing it in the dust, and still the breast that now throbs at the reflection : but let not this be read as something that relates only to another ; for a few years only can divide the eye that is now reading from the hand that has written.
Seite 87 - I have been concerned, I was obliged, by order of the minister and church-wardens, to take the garlands down, and the inhabitants were strictly forbidden to hang up any more for the future. Yet notwithstanding, several people, unwilling to forsake their ancient and delightful custom, continued still the making...
Seite 13 - I designed to preach the next day, that I saw a coach and four horses stop at the outer gate, out of which two persons alighted.
Seite 86 - ... the deceased's name, age, &c. together with long slips of various coloured paper, or ribbons. These were many times intermixed with gilded or painted empty shells of blown eggs, as farther ornaments; Or, 'it may be, as emblems of the bubbles or bitterness of this life; whilst other garlands had only a solitary hourglass hanging therein, as a more significant symbol of mortality.
Seite 12 - The Devilish Conspiracy, Hellish Treason, Heathenish Condemnation, and Damnable Murder, committed and executed by the...