The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Salisbury

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814 - 40 páginas

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Página 111 - AngKcaiue ; or, an Essay towards deducing a regular Succession of all the principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, Collegiate Church, or Chapel (now in being), in those Parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, from the first Erection thereof to...
Página 12 - Malmesbury, for there he erected extensive edifices at vast cost, and with surpassing beauty, the courses of stone being so correctly laid that the joint deceives the eye, and leads it to imagine that the whole wall is composed of a single block.
Página 109 - Episcopus Puerorum in Die Innocentium : or, A DisCOVERIE of an ancient CUSTOM in the CHURCH of SARUM, making an Anniversarie Bishop among the Choristers.
Página 11 - ... him the duty of obedience. Henry was extremely eager to effect this, aware that Roger would faithfully perform every thing for his advantage. Nor did he deceive the royal expectation; but conducted himself with so much integrity and diligence, that not a spark of envy was kindled against him. Moreover, the king was frequently detained in Normandy, sometimes for three, sometimes four years, and sometimes for a longer period; and on his return to his kingdom, he gave credit to the chancellor's...
Página 72 - These materials appear rather to have been employed in raising a lofty embattled wall round the close, than in the construction of the spire ; for in the present walls of the bishop's garden, we perceive many sculptured stones with Norman ornaments, &c.
Página 25 - Sarum, where he was received with great joy, and with a procession from the new fabric. On the morrow he went to the king, who was sick at Marlborough. Eight weeks after that day on which he had been received in procession, on Saturday the nones of March, this noble earl died in the castle of Sarum, and was brought to New Sarum, with many tears and great lamentation. The same hour of the day on which he had been received with great joy, being the eighth of the ides of March, he was honourably interred...
Página 11 - For, before his accession, he had made him regulator of his household, and on becoming king, having had proof of his abilities, appointed him first chancellor and then a bishop. The able discharge of his episcopal functions led to a hope that he might be deserving of a higher office. He therefore committed to his care the administration of the whole kingdom, whether he might himself be resident in England or absent in Normandy.
Página 65 - England; and in this respect is also contradistinguished to those "on the Continent: for whilst all the others consist of dissimilar, and often heterogeneous parts and styles, that of Salisbury is almost wholly of one species, and of one era of execution. It appears not only to have been constructed from one original design, but to have remained to the present day, nearly in the state it was left by its builders: at least we do not readily perceive any very discordant additions, or serious and palpable...
Página 6 - ... Trinity, I, Osmund, Bishop of the church of Salisbury, for the salvation of the souls of King William, and his queen Matilda, his son William, King of the English, and also for the salvation of my own soul, have built the church of Salisbury, and have constituted canons therein, and have canonically granted for ever, freely as I received, the goods of the church to them so living canonically.
Página 15 - ... summoned. The legate briefly replied, " that, when he recollected he was in subjection to the faith of Christ, he ought not to be displeased, if. when guilty of a crime, such as the present age had never witnessed, he was required, by the ministers of Christ, to make satisfaction : that it was the act of heathen nations to imprison bishops, and divest them of their possessions...

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