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Statutes of the Realm
… therof in any wise notwithstanding. XLIX. Exception of Sacrilege, &c. Provided alwayes That this A nor any thing …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… French letters advise us that a woman found guilty of sacrilege was there beheaded and her body burnt. To-day two …
Old and New London
… which Charles Lamb has declared it would be a kind of sacrilege to change; it is, however, very distasteful to the …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to, this Thomas Gawsell. Fin. Term. Pasch. N. 34. Hist. of Sacrilege, p. 251. She is said to have brought to Sir Robert …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… rent he might, which Bishop Godwin, in like cases, termeth sacrilege; after this it came to the see of Norwich again The … name he only met with in Sir Henry Spelman's History of Sacrilege. 19 The Church of Wirmegey is dedicated to St. …
Old and New London
… house in the Strand (old Somerset House)." The curse of sacrilege, in Spelman's opinion, fell on the Protector. He …
Old and New London
… ten teeth, and several handfuls of hair. Upon this sacrilege Cowper, horrified, wrote these lines: "Ill fare the …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… did first found, may overthrowThe Canon Law, that makes it sacrilege to alienate, says also, that what any Churchman …