Descriptive account of the cathedral church of York [by T. Moule. A re-issue of part of Winkles's architectural illustrations of the cathedral churches].

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D. Bogue, 1851 - 64 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 64 - Antiquities of the City of York. he touched about seventy persons for the king's evil. This day he dined with the lord mayor, with his whole court ; after dinner, he knighted Sir Robert Askwith, the lord mayor, and Sir Richard Hutton the recorder. On Monday, the king rode to Sheriff Hutton Park ; and on Tuesday, Dr. Hodgson, chancellor of the church, and chaplain to his majesty, preached before him at the manor. After sermon, the king took coach in the manor-yard, when the lord mayor, aldermen, and...
الصفحة 58 - The first promotion of this prelate to the mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge, is thus mentioned in a private letter to one of his contemporaries. " One Sterne, a solid scholar, who first summed up the 3600 faults that were in our printed bibles of London, is, by his majesty's direction to the Bishop of Ely, made master of Jesus.
الصفحة 57 - ... use of this church ; a rare example that so great care to advance learning should lodge in a woman's breast ; but it was the less wonder in her, because herself was of kin to so much learning. She was the daughter of William Barlow, Bishop of...
الصفحة 55 - The monument of the munificent Archbishop Henry Bowet, who died at Cawood Castle in the year 1423, remains in that state of ruin to which the fire of 1829 reduced it; and the second calamity, renders the period of its restoration, for some time doubtful. It was a particularly fine specimen of the architecture of Henry VI.'s time, and was similar to that of Cardinal Kemp, his successor, which is at Canterbury ; the monument consisted of a lofty canopy raised on three arches, whence clusters of pinnacles...
الصفحة 62 - The vestries on the southern side of the church contain several curious antiquities, amongst which is a large triangular chest, bound with iron scroll-work, which is supposed to have been used as a repository of the copes and vestments of the priests. In the inner vestry, or council-room, is a large press, in which many evidences and registers of the church are preserved ; but the most curious ancient relic is Ulphus's horn of ivory ; an inscription in Latin upon the horn states that Ulphus, prince...
الصفحة 57 - Westphaling bp. of Hereford, and a fourth to Day, that succeeded Whickham in Winchester; so that a bishop was her father, an archbishop her father-in-law; she had four bishops her brethren, and an archbishop her husband.
الصفحة 62 - It is thus translated: This horn, Ulphus, prince of the western parts of Deira,* originally gave to the church of St. Peter, together with all his lands and revenues. Henry Lord Fairfax at last restored it when it had been lost or conveyed away. The Dean and Chapter decorated it anew AD...
الصفحة 61 - In the northern aisle of the choir are preserved two ancient stone coffins, which were discovered under ground at Clifton, on the banks of the Ouse, about a mile northward from the city : each consists of a single block of stone, measuring seven feet long, two feet one inch wide at bottom, and one foot ten inches deep ; the top also is of one stone. Coffins of this description were most common during the thirteenth century, and were chiefly used for the interment of nobility ; after the fourteenth...
الصفحة 57 - He kept an account of all the sermons he preached, by which it appears that while Dean of Durham he preached 721 sermons, when Bishop of Durham 550, and when Archbishop of York 721, in all, no less than 1992 sermons.
الصفحة 57 - Archbishop Matthew appears to have been a man of great wit (including perhaps the punning rage of the time), of a sweet disposition, very bountiful and learned, and as a divine, most exemplarily conscientious and indefatigable both in preaching, and other duties. Preferment never once induced him to desist from preaching, and there was scarcely a pulpit in the dioceses of Durham or York, in which he had not appeared. No imputation, says Mr. Lodge, remains on his memory, except the alienation of ^York...

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