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Excerpt from The Lauderdale Papers, Vol. 1: 1639 1667It is obvious that, even with the space so generously accorded to me by the Society, I can present but a meagre selection from a mass of documents of which' there are but very few that do not possess something of real importance. The principles which have guided me have been, in the first place, to afford the material most necessary for the student of Scottish history during the Restoration ...

Excerpt from The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 8For the four letters now published the Society is indebted to Mr. G. F. Warner, who met with them in arranging a collection of the correspondence of the Earl of Carlisle which has recently been. Purchased by the British Museum. The first of them is valuable as embodying iventworth's Opinion on Gustavus Adolphus at a critical point in his career, whilst the last gives us his Opinion of the Irish officia...

Excerpt from Accounts of the Obedientairs of Abingdon AbbeyA brief description of these rolls and deeds was given by the late Mr. John Bruce in his Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, edited by him for this Society in 1853. Besides the deeds here abstracted he refers to a copy of an Indulgence, dated 1308, granted to all persons who Should contribute to the fabric of the lotariam or lavatory, but I have not seen that document.About the Pu...

Excerpt from Three Books of Polydore Vergil's English History Soon after the production of this Treatise we find Poly dore holding the Office of chamberlain to Pope Alexander the Sixth, by whom, in or soon after 1501, he was sent to England as sub-collector of the tribute called Peter Pence, under the auspices of Adrian de Castello his kins man, already mentioned, who had been raised to the purple under the title of Cardinal S. Chrysogoni, an...

Excerpt from The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 13 Country' party to power, secondly, the inception in its more extreme ranks of a project for excluding the Duke of York from the order of succession to the Crown. To this scheme Lord Halifax, and it would appear at this period Burnet also, presented an uncompromising opposition. During the summer the political situation had become increasingly strained, matters, on more than one occasion, had approac...

Excerpt from The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 5 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in t...

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Excerpt from The Ecclesiologist, Vol. 5The windows, which follow next in order, are always of one light, and have hardly any feature in common with those which are generally supposed to be peculiar to anglo-saxon, except their smallness, and that some of them have triangular heads. The windows appear to have been without glass, and are splayed internally, among the older churches only one instance is quoted of the splay both internally and ext...

Excerpt from A Few Words to Churchwardens on Churches and Church Ornaments: No. I. Suited to Country Parishes Benjamin webb, Esq., Trinity College. James Gavin Young, Esq., Trinity College. Frederick apthorp paley, Esq. St John's College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from The Lauderdale Papers, Vol. 3: 1673-1679 Lauderdale returned to Whitehall in the middle of April. His leaving Scotland was the signal for increased activity in the party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

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Excerpt from A Few Words to Church BuildersPatron Saint.rarely, if ever, in use among our ancestors. Such are - S. Paul, instead Of ss. Peter and Paul, Christ church, and S. Saviour' s, for a small building, Emmanuel church, and the like. But who would found a church in England - once the England of Saints - with out some attention to the local memory of those holy men whose names still live in the appellations of many Of our towns? Who, in th...

Excerpt from The Camden Miscellany, Vol. 4: Containing a London Chronicle During the Reigns of Henry the Seventh and Henry the Eighth, The Expenses of the Judges of Assize Riding the Western and Oxford Circuits, 1596 1601, The Incredulity of St. Thomas, the Scriveners' Play at York Ms. Closes with the year 1545, it is therefore not an improbable supposition that the writer died soon after that period. I cannot omit acknowledging myself in deb...

Excerpt from Anecdotes and Traditions: Illustrative of Early English History and Literature, Derived From Ms. Sources IN submitting to the Members of the Camden Society the following Anecdotes and Traditions, the Editor feels called upon, before proceeding to describe the sources from which they are derived, to explain the motives which induced him to suggest to the Council the propriety of the present pub lication a suggestion acceded to wit...

Excerpt from The Autobiography of Anne Lady HalkettOn the 4th January, Mr. Murray received an additional reward in the sinecure office of Master of Sherburn Hospital, near Durham, to which he was collated by dispensation, contrary to the statute but he retained the position until his death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction...

Excerpt from Infante De Espana MariaThe book, as Don Pascual de Gayangos has obligingly informed me, has never before been printed, though it is not unfrequently to be found in ms. In Spanish libraries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to dig...

Excerpt from Accounts of the Obedientairs of Abingdon AbbeyA brief description of these rolls and deeds was given by the late Mr. John Bruce in his Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, edited by him for this Society in 1853. Besides the deeds here abstracted he refers to a copy of an Indulgence, dated 1308, granted to all persons who Should contribute to the fabric of the lotariam or lavatory, but I have not seen that document.About the Pu...

Excerpt from Three Books of Polydore Vergil's English History Soon after the production of this Treatise we find Poly dore holding the Office of chamberlain to Pope Alexander the Sixth, by whom, in or soon after 1501, he was sent to England as sub-collector of the tribute called Peter Pence, under the auspices of Adrian de Castello his kins man, already mentioned, who had been raised to the purple under the title of Cardinal S. Chrysogoni, an...

Excerpt from The Ancren Riwle: A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life The Ancren Riwle has long been known and appreciated by many of those who have made the literary antiquities of England, and the history of its language, the subject of their study and research, a class more numerous now, perhaps, than at any former time. It has often been thought desirable that it should be printed, in order that the interesting information to...

Excerpt from Christ Church Letters: A Volume of Mediaeval Letters Relating to the Affairs of the Priory of Christ Church CanterburyThe Norman Conquest gave Bishop Odo an opportunity for an illegal and soon-ended seizure of some of the Church lands, but the charters by which those lands were held by the Church remained safely, as they do to this day, in the hands of their proper owners.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...