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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt: ... book, Stonehenge,1 4$.; boy that showed me the colleges before dinner, is. To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to him that showed us the schools and library, los.; to him that showed us All Souls' College, and Chichly's picture,2 5-y. So to see Christ Church with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me, is. Strawberries, i s. 2 d, D inner and servants, i /. or. 6//. After coming home from the schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;--to the butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales. Butler, 2s. Thence with coach and people to Physicgarden, is. So to Friar Bacon's study: I up and sawit, and gave the man is. Bottle of sack for landlord, 2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap entertainment. At night came to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick, and sang and danced till supper: 5.5-. 1 Probably Inigo Jones's "Discourse on Stonehenge," printed in 1663; or, perhaps, " Chorea Gigantum," of the same date, by W. Charleton. 2 Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, the founder of All Souls' College. 3 John Middleton, the remarkable person here alluded to, known by the name of " The Child of Hale," was born in 1578, and buried in the churchyard of Hale, in Lancashire, in 1623, where his gravestone is still to be seen. About the year 1617, Sir Gilbert Ireland took him up to the Court of James I., when he threw the King's wrestler, and put out his thumb, by which feat he disobliged the courtiers, and was sent back, with a present of 3o/, from the Sovereign. He returned home by Brzaenose College, then full of Lancashire studen...
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- EditoreGeneral Books LLC
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1154079244
- ISBN 13 9781154079241
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine90
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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