A Topographical and Historical Account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Greer [etc., etc.,], 1829 - 408 páginas
 

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Página 319 - Baker. successful, successful, his own liberal hand was speedily extended to relieve literate distress. In 1448, the year after his advancement to the mitre, he obtained the royal grant ', dated the 6th of May, impowering him to found a hall, to be called after the blessed St. Mary Magdalen, for the study of divinity and philosophy, at Oxford ; to consist of a president and fifty poor scholars, graduates; the number to be augmented or diminished in proportion to their revenues ; and to confer on...
Página 26 - He was not abundantly liberal, but profusely prodigal, and carried, not so much a family, as an army still along with him ; he took no account either of his receipts or disbursements: he daily wasted his estate, and delighted more in falconers and huntsmen, than the tillers of land, or heavens orators, the ministers: he was much given to his belly, whereby in time he grew so fat that he could scarce crawl: he had many bastard sons and bastard daughters, but they were almost all swept away by sundry...
Página 7 - The state of the leaves and of the timber, and also the tradition of the neighbouring people, concur to strengthen this suspicion. Leaves and other delicate parts of plants, though they may be long preserved in a -subterraneous situation, cannot remain uninjured, when exposed to the action of the waves and of the air. The people of the country believe, that their parish church...

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