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A History of the County of Sussex
… the benefice, but Camilla was confirmed in it by the pope in 1276 and still retained it ten years later. 2 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… frames, stands along the parish boundary on the road below Pope's Hill in the area known as Blackmore's Hale. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… his heir was given to Ralph de Beauchamp. 54 In 1209 the Pope threatened to place Westbury under an interdict if it …
Old and New London
… masters of it, who flourished in his own time, Dryden and Pope, to the first of whom he extended his friendship, even … strange to find Dr. Atterbury writing on the subject to Pope in terms which imply that he thought it a sham and … to dust,' and shut up that last scene of pompous vanity." Pope, in writing back to his friend, simply says that "at the …
Old and New London
… said to have been the first who obtained from the Pope the privilege of using the mitre, ring, and glove, and … LieutenantGeneral Withers, with an epitaph said to be by Pope. In the north walk lie buried Dr. Markham, Archbishop of … "the devil is said to have practised such a delusion on Pope Silvester II., having assured his Holiness that he …
Old and New London
… monastery, and restore it to honour and splendour. The Pope approved the plan, and one of the most magnificent …
Old and New London
… up in a winding-sheet." It is to this funeral array that Pope alludes " 'Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke!' … the Privy Council. The epitaph on his monument, written by Pope, runs as follows: "Statesman, yet friend to truth, of … chapter by recording here the bitter sarcasm contained in Pope's well-known epitaph headed "One who would not be buried …
Old and New London
… before judgment was passed upon him." Henry VII. wrote to Pope Alexander, desiring him to exercise his authority in … as Baker in his "Chronicles" tells us, "was granted by the Pope, to the great contentment of the king and quiet of the … had become great evils, and Henry VII. had applied to the Pope for a reformation of the abuses connected with them, but …
Old and New London
… to survey the building, thus realising the words of Pope, "Who builds like Boyle?" The spare vaults situated … the rest of our chief public schools. "Hereupon," writes Pope to the Earl of Burlington, in 1714, "I inquired of his … and successively Bishop of Gloucester and Rochester, whom Pope Clement VIII. called "the blessed heretic." William …
Old and New London
… the eldest daughter of Lepel, Lady Hervey, the friend of Pope and Horace Walpole. Lady Hervey was often a visitor at … anxious to see, as it is rendered classical by the pen of Pope and the pencil of Hogarth. It is in a woful condition, …