Report On The Manuscripts Of Lord Montagu Of Beaulieu

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ISBN 13 : 9781331918202
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu And in Lancashire and the northern parts, they still garnished the dead with the cross, and set them down and prayed at crosses in the highway; hung the crosses with flowers and garlands on Corpus Christi day with much devotion; wore palm crosses on Palm Sunday, and signed themselves with the sign of the cross "in all their actions, even when they gape" (pp. 32-40). The document contains many quotations from the Fathers, very inaccurately copied by the transcriber, but all of which it has been easy to verify. The passages in the foot-notes have been taken from such editions as would be likely to be in the hands of the writers. The second paper above alluded to is an important list, which must have been made in 1607 or 1608, of the King's officers and fees, in the great Courts, the royal household, the castles and forts, and his Majesty's houses, parks and forests throughout the realm, together with a list of the nobility, a table of musters, the names of fugitives beyond seas, and the numbers of churches in the shires of England and Wales. This document follows the lines of the great list of Queen Elizabeth's reign, but differs from and supplements it in various respects. (See note on p. 51.) The main part of the collection consists of the correspondence of the Montagu family during the later half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries, and the value of these letters (as of many other collections) lies, it will be seen, not in startling discoveries, not even in any material fresh information, but in the view which they give us of how things struck a contemporary; how these high-minded gentlemen and true-hearted Englishmen looked upon the events passing around them, and how they played their parts in those troublous times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.