The antiquities of Coventre, collected from The antiquities of Warwickshire |
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الصفحة 43 - ... acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators : and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth by an ancient MS.
الصفحة 43 - Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants, that were played therein, upon Corpus -Christi day; which, occasioning very great confluence of people thither, from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto ; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon...
الصفحة 39 - VIII. with all the landsand possessions thereunto belonging, granted unto John Hales, Gent, and his Heirs ; which John, being an active man in those days, and clerk of the Hamper (an office then of no small benefit) and having accumulated a great estate...
الصفحة 56 - Chester, who, having a certain leprous knight in his household, gave in pure alms for the health of his soul and the souls of his ancestors his chapel at Sponne with the site thereof, and half a carucate of land for the maintenance of such lepers as should happen to be in the town of Coventry.
الصفحة 43 - Before the suppression of the monasteries this city was very famous for the pageants that were play'd therein, upon Corpus Christi Day (one of their ancient faires) which occasioning very great confluence of people thither from far and near, was of no small benefit thereto : which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the...
الصفحة 17 - To so low an ebb did their trading soon after grow .... that many thousands of the inhabitants, to seek better livelihoods, were constrained to forsake the City ; insomuch as in 3 Edward VI., there were not at that time above 3000 inhabitants, whereas, within memory, there had been 1 5,000.