The Portledge Papers: Being Extracts from the Letters of Richard Lapthorne, Gent, of Hatton Garden, London, to Richard Coffin Esq. of Portledge, Bideford, Devon, from December 10th, 1687-August 7th, 1697 |
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Page 150 - ... highth, so that a man of an indifferent stature may reach the highest. Over the books are the Roman Emperors, I mean, their heads, in brass statues, which serve for standards in the catalogue, to direct to find any particular book, viz., under such an Emperor's head, such an number.
Page 149 - I had a short view of Sir R. Cotton's library. It is scituated adjoyning to the house of Commons at Westminster, of a great highth, and part of that old fabrick but very narrow, as I remember, not full 6 feet in breadth and not above 26 in length, the books placed on each side of a tolerable highth so that a man of an indifferent stature may reach the highest.
Page 150 - ... stature may reach the highest. Over the books are the Roman Emperors, I mean, their heads, in brass statues, which serve for standards in the catalogue, to direct to find any particular book, viz., under such an Emperor's head, such an number. ... I had not time to look into the books ; some relicts I took notice of, besides the books ; viz., I saw there Sir H. Spelman's and Buchanon's pictures, well don ; also Ben Johnson's and Sir R. Cotton's, and in the staires, was WicklifPs.
Page 150 - Cotton's, and in the staires, was WicklifFs. I had in my hand the sword of Hugo Lupus, Earle of Chester, that came in with the Conquest. I saw Pope Eugeneus his Bull to the King of England ; the originall in a faire Greek character in parchment anno 1500 [?] and od years. Instead of wax seales were the Cardinalls' heads, in metall, that subscribed it.
Page 14 - ... had quartered, and calmly asking " his master " where he was to put them.1 Mr. Coffin is mentioned by Prince, in the Worthies of Devon, as a right worthy and worshipful gentleman, of great piety and virtue, and, for his quality, of excellent learning. " He hath a noble library, and knows well how to make use of it.
Page 95 - ... gallows; such it seemes, that proved so insinuating to the foolish mob, as to draw teares from their eyes, insomuch as, I was told by some, that a little prompting would almost have prevayled with them for a rescue; which seems credible, in regard they afterwards offered violence to Mrs. Wharton's lodgings, by breaking the windows, etc. But the next night, about 7 of the clock, hee was carryed from Fleet Street in a herse, attended by 30 coaches, to St. Giles, to be interred, and its sayd the...
Page 266 - ... she was unknowne to him and looking about for the challenger at last saw a Lady in a mask who told him she was the person hee looked for and then told him...
Page 5 - On the 24th of March, 1882, an address of very serious public import was delivered by Dr. Koch, before the physiological society of Berlin. It touches a question in which we are all at present interested— that of experimental physiology — and I may, therefore, be permitted to give some account of it in the Times. The address, a copy of which has been courteously sent to me by its author, is entitled "The Etiology of Tubercular Disease.
Page 266 - ... to him, and looking about for the challenger, at last saw a lady in a mask, who told him she was the person hee looked for, and then told him the occasion, and after some discourse carried him off in her carnage, and in a very few howers marryed him.
Page 114 - Assations (Alsatians) and the gentlemen of the Temple. the Templers shutting up their back gates against them they have broken them open and some part of the wall. the Sherriffs are gon to quiet them. ***** Since the above written I understand that the Sherriffe with his posse hath vanquished the White Fryers Raparees but with the loss of one of his officers who was killed and severall much woonded but the pests are fled from their quarters and about 70 of them sent to the severall prisons within...