Works of the Camden Society

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Page 18 - Hear us (O merciful FATHER), we beseech Thee, and with Thy HOLY SPIRIT and Word, vouchsafe to bl+ess and sanc+tify these Thy gifts and creatures of Bread and Wine, that they may be unto us, the Body and Blood of Thy most dearly beloved SON JESUS CHRIST.
Page 56 - Grey, and the granddaughter maternally of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Mary, Queen Dowager of France, sister of King Henry VIII.
Page 3 - ... mayor, who caused the marching watch, both on the eve of St. John the Baptist and of St Peter the Apostle, to be revived and set forth in as comely order as it hath been accustomed, which watch was also beautified by the number of more than three hundred demilances and light horsemen, prepared by the citizens to be sent into Scotland for the rescue of the town of Haddington, and others kept by the Englishmen.
Page 63 - He gave thanks to the Lords for their open Trial, and cried Mercy of the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquess of Northampton, and the Earl of Pembrook, for his illmeaning against them, and made suit for his Life, Wife, Children, Servants, and Debts, and so departed without the Ax of the Tower.
Page 47 - Lordes table that stoode where the high aulter was, and he remoued the table beneth the steepps into the middes of the upper quire in Poules, and sett the endes east and west, the priest standing in the middest at the communion on the south side of the bord, and after the creed song he caused the vaile to be drawen, that no person shoulde see but those that receaued, and he closed the iron grates of the quire on the north and sowth side with bricke and plaistcr, that non might rcmaine in at the quire.
Page 28 - ... is also there kept. One other part -of the same church is now a prison, called the Compter in Southwark, &c. Farther up on that side, almost directly over against St. George's Church, was sometime a large and most sumptuous house, built by Charles Brandon, late Duke of Suffolk, in the reign of Henry VIII., which was called Suffolk House; but coming afterwards into the king's hands, the same was called Southwark Place, and a mint of coinage was there kept for the king. To this place came King...
Page 126 - This day the confirmation of the alliance between the pope and this kingdom has been made by a public and solemn sacrifice of a preaching doctor named Rogers, who has been burnt alive for being a Lutheran ; but he has met his death persisting in his opinion. At which the greater part of the people here took such pleasure that they did not fear to give him many acclamations to comfort his courage ; and even his children stood by consoling him, in such a way that he looked as if they were conducting...
Page 18 - ... the advice of the lord protector and his council, had appointed the archbishop of Canterbury, with other learned and discreet bishops and divines, to draw an order of divine worship, having respect to the pure religion of Christ taught in the Scripture, and to the practice of the primitive church, which they, by the aid of the Holy Ghost, had with one uniform agreement concluded on ; wherefore the parliament having considered the book, and the things that were altered or retained in it, they...

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