...themselves in, till they had rent and tornev off some barge-loads of mettal, not sparing even the i monuments of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them ; besides which they exceedingly ruin'd the Citty. Here I saw a tall woman six foote two inches high, comely, middle | ag'd and well...

...Queen Eleanora, the loyal and loving wife who sucked the poison out of her husband's wound) ; the abbot founder, with rare carving in the stone ; the great...people's coming to see her on account of her height. 20th August. From hence we had a most pleasant ride over a large heath open like Salisbury Plain, to...

...axes and hammers, and shut themselves in, till they had rent and torne off some barge-loads of mettal, not sparing even the monuments of the dead, so hellish...avarice possessed them ; besides which they exceedingly ruin'd the Citty. Here I saw a tall woman six foote two inches high, comely, middle agti and well proportion'd,...

...these men went in with axes and hammers, and shut themselves in till they had rent and torn off S9n;u barge-loads of metal, not sparing even the monuments...of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them." It was not avarico which possessed them, but what they believed to be zeal for God's glory and the...

...York itself, but the soldiers had lately knocked off most of the brasses from the gravestones, so that few inscriptions were left ; they told us that these...besides which, they exceedingly ruined the city." This account is corroborated by the Mercurius Anlicus. "The cathedrals, particularly that at Lincoln,...

...in with axes and hammers, and shut themselves in, till they had rent and torn off some large loads of metal, not sparing even the monuments of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them." Good Bishop Hall, of Norwich, draws a sad picture in his " Hard Measure" of the lamentable workings...

...went in with axes and hammers, and shut themselves in till they had rent and torn off some barge loads of metal, not sparing even the monuments of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them.'' — Evelyn. " They have torn to pieces monuments and tombs, shot down escutcheons and arms of benefactors,...

...that these men went in with axes and hammers, and shut themselves in till they had rent and torn olf some barge-loads of metal, not sparing even the monuments...of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them." It was not avarice which possessed them, but what they believed to be zeal for God's glory and the...

...Queen Eleauoro, the loyal and loving wife who sucked the poison out of ner husband's wound) ; the abbot founder, with rare carving in the stone ; the great...people's coming to see her on account of her height. 20th August. From hence we had a most pleasant ride over a large heath open like Salisbury Plain, to...

...travelling through the country, gives us this account of their doings in Lincoln Cathedral : — " The soldiers had lately knocked off most of the brasses...of the dead, so hellish an avarice possessed them." It was not avarice which possessed them, but what they believed to be zeal for God's glory and the...