A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, Or, Topographical and Genealogical Collections: Concerning that County, Volume 1

Front Cover
Joshua Page, 1844 - Suffolk (England) - 1051 pages
 

Selected pages

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 803 - July 15, 1641, he was created a baronet j 3'et upon the breaking out of the civil war, he adhered to the parliament, and took the solemn league and covenant in 1643. He sat in this parliament till Dec.
Page 898 - Mr. Elwes, as one of the commons of England, in three successive parliaments, maintained a conduct which purer times might have been glad to boast, and which later times may be proud to follow. The minister that influenced him was — his conscience. He obeyed no mandate, but his opinion. He gave that opinion as he held it to be right. In one word, his public conduct lives after him, pure, and without a stain ! In private life, he was chiefly an enemy to himself.
Page 153 - ... low circumstances in Gloucester, where his father was a journeyman-weaver, and brought up his son to the same business. Being however a sensible man, he gave him what little learning was in his power at one of the charity-schools at Gloucester. This excited a thirst for greater acquisitions in the young man, who employed all the time he could spare in the study of such books as fell in his way. His attainments at length attracted the notice of a neighbouring gentleman of fortune, who sent him...
Page 1015 - An Act to amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales...
Page 73 - Some of the bones were nearly aslarge as a man's body, and six or seven feet long ; the cavities which contained the. marrow were large enough to admit the introduction of a man's arm ; the bones, on being handled, broke to pieces. One of the molar teeth was carried to Colchester, by Mr.
Page 326 - Sommerley hall (nigh Yarmouth) belonging to the lady Wentworth, well answering the name thereof : for here Sommer is to be seen in the depth of winter in the pleasant walks, beset on both sides with fir-trees green all the year long, besides other curiosities.
Page 704 - Howardly left 40 marks, and the residue of his personal estate, to be laid out in land, the profits thereof to be applied in repairing the church, and relieving the poor of Great Barton.
Page 656 - Hervey, each solicited her in marriage at the same time, and that, to keep the peace between the rivals, she threatened the first aggressor with her perpetual displeasure ; humorously telling them that if they would wait, she would have them all in their turns, a promise which the lady actually performed.
Page 666 - Hi- welt whig beiny still unfinished. The whole stands upon a basement containing the offices. The extreme length of the building is 625 feet. The centre, crowned with a dome, rises 105 feet, the diameter being 120 feet north and south, by 106 feet east and west. The corridors are quadrants of circles...
Page 320 - our true English Aretine, " another, "Sweet satyric Nash," a third describes his Muse as ' ' armed with a gag-tooth (a tusk), and his pen possessed with Hercules's furies." He is well characterised in " The Return from Parnassus."

Bibliographic information