Curious Church Customs and Cognate SubjectsWilliam Andrews |
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Abbey Abbot accounts altar ancient appears Archbishop armour army Badgworth banns banns of marriage baptism baptized Beating the Bounds belfry bell Biddenden Bishop Bishop of Durham Bishop of Sherborne body boys bread burial buried BYGONE cake called carried castle Cathedral celebrated century ceremony child christening Christian churchwardens churchyard coffin corpse crosier cross crusaders dance dead death deceased Derbyshire doth early edited by William England English entry Fairy feast festival forfeit Frost Fairs funeral grave hand Henry holy day honour inscription instance John King Kirton-in-Lindsey Lincolnshire Lord marriage married Minster North Lincolnshire nuptial origin parish church parvise peal person practice prayers priest Psalm quaint ring ringers Rogation Roman rood loft rung sacred Saints says schiltrons sermon Shrove Tuesday sixpence solemn sometimes soul staff stone stories Sunday Swifter sword toll tomb village volume wedding William Andrews writer Yorkshire
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Page 132 - Seem'd all on fire that chapel proud, Where Roslin's chiefs uncoffin'd lie, Each baron, for a sable shroud, Sheathed in his iron panoply.
Page 83 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead ? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
Page 194 - Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not. Hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek the lost.
Page 186 - He would by no means omit the customary time of procession, persuading all, both rich and poor, if they desired the preservation of love and their parish rights and liberties, to accompany him in his perambulation ; and most did so ; in which perambulation he would usually express more pleasant discourse than at other times, and would then always drop some loving and facetious observations to be remembered against the next year, especially by the boys and young people ; still inclining them, and...
Page 185 - Many of the older inhabitants can well remember when the sacrist, resident prebendaries, and members of the choir, assembled at Morning Prayers on Monday and Tuesday in Rogation Week, with the charity children bearing long poles clothed with all kinds of flowers then in season, and which were afterwards carried through the streets of the town with much solemnity, the clergy, singing men, and boys dressed in their sacred vest-' ments, closing the procession, and chanting, in a grave and appropriate...
Page 184 - God of his goodness wyll defende and save the corne in the felde, and that he wyll vouchsave to pourge the ayer, for this cause be certaine Gospels red in the wyde felde amonges the corne and grasse, that by the vertue and operation of God's word, the power of the wicked spirites, which...
Page 117 - Raphe, my beloved husband, I am right sorie that I have in thy absence taken another man to be my husband ; but here, before God and this companie, I do renounce and forsake him, and do promise to keep mysealfe only unto thee duringe life, and to performe all duties which I first promised unto thee in our marriage.
Page 136 - The manner was that when the Corps was brought out of the house and layd on the Biere ; a Loafe of bread was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the corps, as also a...
Page 245 - ... then again they claim affinity by some touch of that common nature which makes all men kin. Nowhere is space lost, either within or without these venerable, silver-clasped and jewel-embossed volumes, whose very covers, as we have seen, afforded a field for special branches of artistic handicraft. Nor was all this labour spent in vain : their homes for centuries were in the silence of the sanctuary ; their authors have mingled with the dust of the convent cemetery ; over them have passed the rise...
Page 66 - Our law is so constructed here for every fault a jugg of beer If that you ring with spurr or hat a jugg of beer must pay for that...