An Historical and Topographical Description of the Municipium of Ancient Verulam: The Martyrdom of St. Alban: Foundation of the Monastery, Part 2W. Langley, 1822 |
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abbey arms abbey church abbot afterwards aisle Albans altar ancient Verulam appears Bacon beautiful Bedfordshire bishop borough brass building buried Cæsar canopied centre chancel chapel columns court Dining Room Duke Earl of Verulam east edifice Edward EDWARD GRIMSTON Edward VI Elizabeth England erected feet formed Francis Gallery Godfrey Kneller Gorhambury granted Grimston half length Hall head heirs Henry Hertford Herts honor inhabitants inscription James John Gape John Kentish justice king king's knight Lady liberty Lord Mary mayor and burgesses memory monastery monks monument monumental brass mouldings mullion nave niches Offa ornamented Oxton parish parliament person pillars pointed arches present prince queen Ralph regni reign Richard Robert Robert Woolley Roman tile sculpture shield shrine Sir Harbottle Sir Nicholas Bacon Sir Richard Lee south side spandrils steward stone supported tion tower town transept trefoil walls William Wolvey
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Page 90 - Kiss'd the stern mandate, bow'd his head, and dy'd. Another monument, against the west wall, displays the bust of EDWARD STRONG, of New Barns, in this parish, Citizen and Mason of London, who, " equally with its ingenious architect, Sir Christopher Wren, and its truly pious diocesan, Bishop Compton, shared the felicity of seeing both the beginning and the finishing of that stupendous fabric,
Page 140 - The windowes looke into the garden, the side opposite to them no window, but is hung all with pictures at length, as of King James, his Lordship, and several! illustrious persons of his time. At the end you enter is no window, but there is a very large picture...
Page 146 - He was afterwards one of the Commissioners appointed to treat with the King in the Isle of Wight, and pressed the acceptance of the King's concessions so strongly, that he was soon afterwards excluded the House by force, with other members, by Cromwell ; against whom, he had previously brought a charge of saying, that ' he was sure of the army ; but there was another body that had more need of purging, namely, the House of Commons, and he thought the army only could do...
Page 147 - When the house of commons and the army were a quarrelling, at a meeting of the officers it was proposed to purge the army better, that they might know whom to depend on. Cromwell upon that said, he was sure of the army ; but there was another body that had more need of purging, naming the house of commons, and he thought the army only could do that.
Page 146 - In the beginning of the long parliament he was a great assertor of the laws, and invei¡jhed severely against all that had been concerned in the former illegal oppression. His principle was, that allegiance and protection were mutual obligations ; and that the one went for the other. He thought the law was the measure of both ; and that when a legal protection was denied to one that paid a legal allegiance, the subject had a right to defend himself. He was much troubled, when preachers asserted a...
Page 138 - Nisi quid potius. And on the wall, over the table, is painted Ceres teaching the soweing of corne; the word, Moniti meliora.
Page xxv - all the commons of the count}'," between the ages of fifteen and three score, to attend him in the great court of the Abbey, and there to make oath to behave as faithful subjects, and never, from that time, to rise or disturb the public'peace; but rather to die than to follow those who would excite them to rebellion...
Page xxx - When the kins* was in a manner left alone, without any guard, Thomas Hoo, Esq. a man well learned in languages, and well read in the law, advised the king to send a messenger to the northern lords, and let them know that ' he would gladly come to them : for he knew they were his friends, and met to serve him...
Page 53 - ... honoured Towne. Before him was none, that ever was knowne, For travaile of so high renowne. * As the Knights in the Temple crosse-legged in Marble, In Armour with Sword and with Sheeld, So was this Knight grac't, which Time hath defac't, That nothing but Ruines doth yeeld. His Travailes being donne, he shines like the Sun, In heavenly Canaan, To which blessed Place, the Lord, of his grace, Bring us all, man after man.
Page 148 - ... absence : and as we formerly had the honour of sending so eminent and worthy a member, so we shall hope, by the blessing of God upon your endeavours, that not only ourselves, but the whole nation, shall have cause to bless God for your return, and in due time reap the benefit of your councils and labour in that great affliction.