The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: Parts 4 and 5. 1908G. Bell, 1908 - Great Britain |
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Page 148 - Leylande at this praesente tyme cummith to Byri to see what bookes be lefte yn the library there, or translatid thens ynto any other corner of the late monastery...
Page 97 - ... many smithes in the towne that use to make knives and all maner of cuttynge tooles, and many lorimars that make byts, and a greate many naylors. So that a great parte of the towne is mayntayned by smithes" who have their "Yren out of Staffordshire and Warwikeshire and see coale out of Staffordshire.
Page 46 - ... et gemmei, prata florida, antra muscosa, rivi levis et per saxa discursus, necnon solitudo et quies Musis amicissima...
Page 27 - The rich Sir Hugh of Clopton, sometime mayor of London, who was born at Clopton near Stratford, and died in 1497, moved by the danger of his compatriots, and ' having never wife nor children, convertid a great peace of his substance in good workes in Stratford, first making a sumptuus new bridge and large of stone, wher in the middle be a vi great arches for the maine streame of Avon and at eche ende certen smaul arches to bere the causey, and so to passe commodiously at such tymes as the ryver risith.
Page 47 - Warwike) that the moste parte of the shire of Warwike, that lyeth as Avon river descendithe on the right hand or rype of it, is in Arden...
Page 93 - ... butt shot of the right bank of the river, that there cometh down; and this spring is double as profitable in yielding of salt liquor as both the other. Some say that this salt spring did fail in the time of Richard de la Wiche Bishop of Chichester, and that after by his intercession it was restored to the profit of the old course. [Such is the superstition of the people. In token whereof, or for the honour that the Wichemen and salters bare unto this Richard their countryman, they used of late...
Page 22 - ... the siege of Chastillon, on the 7th of July, 1453, may be gathered from the Chronicles of Hall and Monstrelet. Dugdale relates that he was buried at Rouen, in Normandy, but was afterwards removed and reinterred at Whitchurch, in Shropshire. Leland also says ; " This John Talbot had among his brethren one caullid Gilbert Talbot, after a knight of fame, the which buried the Erie his grandfathers bones brought out of Fraunce at Whitchirche in a fair Chappelle, where he is also buried hymself.
Page 27 - Eovesham, and then 2. miles to Warwik apon Avon. The bridge ther of late tyme was very smaulle and ille, and at hygh waters very harde to passe by. Wherapon in tyme of mynde one Cloptun, a great rich marchant, and Mayr of London, as I remember, borne about Strateforde, having never wife nor childern convertid a great peace of his substance in good workes in Stratford, first making a sumptuus new bridge and large of stone, wher in the midle be a vi. great arches for the maine streame of Avon, and...
Page 49 - About the body of this chaple was curiously paynted the Daunce of Deathe commonly called the Daunce of Powles, bccawse the same was sometyme there paynted abowte the cloysters on the northwest syd of Powles churche. pulled downe by the Duke of Somarset, tempore E. 6.