Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700: Including the Origin of British Society, Customs and Manners, with a General Sketch of the State of Religion, Superstition, Dresses, and Amusements of the Citizens of London, During that Period; to which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries, Illustrated by Eighteen Engravings, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... shillings from each hide , to accumulate one for Maud on her marriage with the Emperor Henry . Selden is of opinion , that the aid demanded by chiefs from their vassals , for the same purpose , is of far more antient origin ; the ...
... shillings from each hide , to accumulate one for Maud on her marriage with the Emperor Henry . Selden is of opinion , that the aid demanded by chiefs from their vassals , for the same purpose , is of far more antient origin ; the ...
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... shillings , and the stocks for six hours upon non- payment . And the constable who neglected to execute any of the provisions , forfeited ten shil- lings . Those who after admonition were found tippling in ale - houses , became liable ...
... shillings , and the stocks for six hours upon non- payment . And the constable who neglected to execute any of the provisions , forfeited ten shil- lings . Those who after admonition were found tippling in ale - houses , became liable ...
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... the premisses , shall , for every such offence , forfeit the sum of five shillings . And that no person or persons whatsoever shall publicly cry , shew forth , or expose to sale , any wares , merchandizes , fruit expose 234.
... the premisses , shall , for every such offence , forfeit the sum of five shillings . And that no person or persons whatsoever shall publicly cry , shew forth , or expose to sale , any wares , merchandizes , fruit expose 234.
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... shillings for every such offence ; and that no person or persons shall use , employ , or travel upon the Lord's day , with any boat , wherry , lighter , or barge , except it be upon extraordinary occasion , to be allowed by some justice ...
... shillings for every such offence ; and that no person or persons shall use , employ , or travel upon the Lord's day , with any boat , wherry , lighter , or barge , except it be upon extraordinary occasion , to be allowed by some justice ...
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... shilling or two , as he can well dispend ; which they lend him not with the hope to be repaid , but that he will come no more . Men shun him , at length , as they do an infec- tion ; and having done with the aye , as his cloaths to him ...
... shilling or two , as he can well dispend ; which they lend him not with the hope to be repaid , but that he will come no more . Men shun him , at length , as they do an infec- tion ; and having done with the aye , as his cloaths to him ...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1 James Peller Malcolm Visualização integral - 1811 |
Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1 James Peller Malcolm Visualização integral - 1811 |
Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1 James Peller Malcolm Visualização integral - 1811 |
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Página 190 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Página 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Página 194 - He married my sisters with five pounds, 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...
Página 243 - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
Página 193 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Página 156 - Now unthrifts riot and run in debt, upon the boldness of these places ; yea, and rich men run thither with poor men's goods; there they build, there they spend, and bid their creditors go whistle them. Men's wives run thither with their husband's plate, and say they dare not abide with their husbands for beating.
Página 418 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.
Página 219 - And is it not a great vanity, that a man cannot heartily welcome his friend now, but straight they must be in hand with tobacco ? No, it is become in place of a cure, a point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of tobacco...
Página 220 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 383 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...