Letters Archaeological and Historical Relating to the Isle of Wight, Tom 2

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Henry Frowde, 1896

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The Assassination of Buckingham
73
The Earls of Newport and Society in the Elizabethan
83
Richard Weston Earl of Portland Governor of the Isle
89
Alexander Ross Vicar of Carisbrooke A D 16341654
103
Locomotion Postal Service and Water Carriage in the Isle
115
Freshwater and Robert Hooke A D 16351702
123
Case of John Worsley of Gatcombe I W in the Court of High
130
How the Sunday was kept in Newport by some A D 1639
137
Viscount Falkland M P for Newport I W A D 16401642
146
The Dingley Arms in Winchester Cathedral
152
Philip Earl of Pembroke Governor of the Isle of Wight A D
164
A Letter from Robert Dillington to Sir John Oglander December
179
A Contested Election at Newport I W A D 1645
187
The Trattle Family
199
Letter from the Mayor of Newport I W about John Chandler
216
Christmas in Carisbrooke Castle A D 1647
224
Charles Is Last Coming to the Island A D 1647
232
Colonel Robert Hammond Captain and Governor of the Isle
234
The Treaty of Newport A D 1648
246
Sir Edward Walker Knight Secretary and Writer to Charles I
254
Sir John Bowring and Charles I at Carisbrooke Castle
265
James Harrington in attendance on Charles I at Carisbrooke
275
Carisbrooke Castle September 15 A D 1648
289
Carisbrooke Castle during the Second Civil War A D 1648
297
The Seizure of Charles I at Newport and his removal to Hurst
305
The Scene of the Execution of Charles I
313
Sir Henry Vane a prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle A D 1655 I
326
99
335
Lord Colepeper Governor of the Isle of Wight A D 16601667
342
The Christian Family of the Isle of Man and Cumberland
352

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Strona 362 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, but by the framers of the Rubric themselves immediately after the confirmation of it by Act of Parliament.
Strona 41 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
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Strona 618 - Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Strona 375 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...
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Strona 458 - ... life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too...
Strona 39 - did personate in the moral the wicked of the world ; the | three ladies, pride, covetousness, and luxury ; the two old men, the end of the world and the last judgment. This sight took such impression in me, that when I came towards man's estate it was as fresh in my memory as if I had seen it newly acted.

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