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Page 267 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did...
Page 69 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 216 - Your grace's subjects pine away even unto the death, their colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is benumbed, their senses are bereft. Wherefore, your poor subjects' most humble petition unto your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.
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| Title | Sketches of the Reformation and Elizabethan Age: Taken from the Contemporary Pulpit, Volume 5 Sketches of the Reformation and Elizabethan Age: Taken from the Contemporary Pulpit, John Oliver Willyams Haweis |
| Author | John Oliver Willyams Haweis |
| Publisher | W. Pickering, 1844 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 323 pages |
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