The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: Parts 1 to 3. 1907G. Bell, 1907 |
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Page xi - It would be a great profit to students, and honour to this realm,' he wrote; 'whereas now the Germans, perceiving our desidiousness and negligence, do send daily young scholars hither that spoileth them and cutteth them out of libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as monuments of their own country.
Page 140 - Tymes with Water derivid out of it 2 Places in Bath Priorie usid for Bathes: els voide ; for in them be no springes. "The Colour of the Water of the Baynes is as it were a depe blew So Water, and rikith like a sething Potte continually, having sumwhat a sulphurous and sumwhat a pleasant savor.
Page 139 - In this table was an inscription of a tumbe or burial wher in I saw playnly these wordes : vixit annos xxx. This inscription was meately hole but very diffusely written, as letters for hole wordes, and 2. or 3. letters conveid in one. Then I saw a. 2 images, wherof one was of a nakid manne grasping a serpent in eche hand, as I tooke it: and this image was not far from the north gate. Such antiquites as were in the waulles from the north gate to the est, and from the est gate to the south, hath been...
Page 65 - In the secunde area ther be a 5. or 6. toures, and the stately staire up to the haul is very magnificent, and so is the haul it self, and al the residew of the house : in so much that I saw no house in the north so like a princely logginges.
Page xi - A great nombre of them whych purchased those superstycyouse mansyons, reserved of those lybrarye bokes, some to serve theyr Jakes, some to scour thevr candelstyckes, and some to rubbe their bootes.
Page 206 - Then a 3. miles by mory and hethy ground. Then 2. miles by hilly and woddy ground to Liscard. About half a mile or I cam to Liskard I passid in a wood by a chapel of owr Lady caullid our Lady in the Park, wher was wont to be gret pilgrimage.
Page 31 - CASTELLUM, the receptacle in which the water was collected and heated for the public baths of the Romans : some of these were large erections containing many vaulted rooms or cisterns capable of holding a prodigious quantity of water. " There lay in a chapelle at the White Freres a rich marchaunt caullid Ranulphus de Kyme, whos image was thens taken and set at the south ende of the new Castelle of the conducte of water in Wikerford.
Page 75 - Then were al the chief toures of the 3. court as in the hart of the castel. The haul and al the houses of offices be large and stately : and in the haul I saw an incredible great beame of an hart. The great chaumber was exceding large, but now it is fals rofid and devidid into 2.
Page 204 - ... of the very hedde of them. The sande that cummith from tynne workes is a great cause of this, and yn tyme to cum shaul be a sore decay to the hole haven of Fawey. Barges as yet cum with marchanties within half a mile of Lostwithiel.
Page 140 - Flesch y s warmid it is more tolerable and pleasaunt. " Both these Bathes be in the midle of a lite streat, and joine to St. John's Hospitals; so that it may be thought that Reyinalde, bishop of Bathe, made this Hospitale nere these 2 commune Bathes to socour poore people resorting to them.