Canterbury in the olden timeA. Ginder, 1860 - 80 oldal |
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76. oldal - ... were offered on both sides, sentence was pronounced, that ' Thomas, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, had been guilty of contumacy, treason, and rebellion ; that his bones should be publicly burnt, to admonish the living of their duty by the punishment of the dead ; and that the offerings made at his shrine should be forfeited to the crown...
39. oldal - More's skull was really there, I went 'down into the vault, and found it still remaining in the place where it was seen many years ago, in a niche in the wall, in a leaden box, something of the shape of a bee-hive, open in the front and with an iron grating before it.
106. oldal - From the woodcut given, the last abode of Joanna of Navarre, queen of England, resembles what children call an apple turnover. It was her coffin which rested on that of her lord. " Not being able to take off the lid of the large coffin, as a great portion of its length was under the tomb, they sawed an aperture in the lid. Immediately under the coffin board was found a quantity of...
107. oldal - These wrappers were cut through and lifted off, when, to the astonishment of all present, the face of the deceased King was seen in complete preservation — the nose elevated, the cartilage even remaining though, on the admission of the air, it sunk rapidly away, and had entirely disappeared before the examination was finished. The skin of the chin was entire, of the consistence and thickness of the upper leather of a shoe, brown and moist ; the beard thick and matted, of a deep russet colour.
67. oldal - In Queen Mary's time the monastery was granted to Cardinal Pole for his life. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth, making a royal progress, kept her court here. She attended divine service at the Cathedral every Sunday, during her stay at Canterbury, and was magnificently entertained, with all her attendants and a great concourse of other company, by Archbishop Parker, on her birth-day, which she kept at the archicpiscopal palace.
25. oldal - This field and hill were improved, and these terraces, walks, and plantations made, in the year 1790, for the use of the public, at the sole expense of James Simmons, Esq. of this city, alderman and banker. To perpetuate the memory of which generous transaction, and as a mark of gratitude for his other public services, this pillar was erected by voluntary subscription in the year 1803.
107. oldal - ... orbits of the eyes prominent in their sockets. The flesh upon the nose was moist, clammy, and of the same brown colour as every other part of the face. Having thus ascertained that the body of the King was actually deposited in the tomb, and that it had never been disturbed, the wrappers were laid again upon the face, the lead drawn back over them, the lid of the coffin put on, the rubbish filled in, and the marble pavement replaced immediately. It should be observed, that about three feet from...
25. oldal - It is skirted on the southern side by the ancient walls ; and a smooth terrace, 15 feet wide, and 1840 feet long, is formed on the top of the rampart within the wall, which has been repaired and raised into a parapet, and which passes in its course four of the old watch-towers.
99. oldal - ... capacity for doing that good whereof we are here about to give the world an account, and to stop the black and slanderous mouths of our professed enemies, after many years of adversity and suffering. We shall first recount the sad, forlorn, and languishing condition of our church at our return. It looked more like a ruined monastery than a church, so little had the fury of the late reformers left remaining of it but the bare walls and roof. " The windows (famous both for strength and beauty)...
67. oldal - The site of the monastery was afterwards granted to Henry Lord Cobham. On the attainder of that nobleman in 1603, it was granted by James I. to Robert Cecil, Lord Essenden (afterwards Earl of Salisbury). From the possession of Cecil it passed to that of Thomas Lord Wootton, of Marley. Here King Charles I. consummated his marriage with the Princess Henrietta of France, on the 13th of June, 1625; he had met the Princess at Dover, and had brought her to Canterbury that day.