SOME OF THE PUBLIC EVENTS, AND DOMESTIC AND
ECCLESIASTICAL MANNERS, OF THE FIFTEENTH
AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES.

PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-ST.

SOLD BY E. DUYCKINCK, COLLINS AND BANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., G. AND C
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GALLAHER, AND WHITE, C. S. FRANCIS, WILLIAM BURGESS, JR., AND N. E.
HOLMES-PHILADELPHIA, CAREY, LEA, AND CAREY, AND JOHN GMGO:~
ALBANY, O. STERUE.

How have you pass'd the time you wanted victuals!
-Very hardly.

DAVENPORT'S KING JOHN AND MATILDA,

The illustrious warriors who found themselves wasting by some lingering illness, were not always content barely to excuse their fate: they often availed themselves of the few moments that were yet remaining, to shake off life by a way more violent or glorious.—But if none of these reliefs were afforded, and especially when Christianity had banished these cruel practices, the heroes consoled themselves at least by putting on complete armour as soon as they found their end approaching; thus making, as it were, a solemn protest against the kind of death to which they were forced involun. tarily to submit.

MALLET'S NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES:

WHEN that I had thus re-entered the cell, I saw none of the foes which my troubled fancy had looked for in that place, the Viscount being there alone, and seated on the very same spot whereon

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