Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at York, July, 1846, with a General Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting, and Catalogue of the Museum Formed on that Occasion, Volumes 1-2Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain), Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland J. Murray; (etc., etc.), 1848 |
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Page 15 - A statute, also, passed 15 Edwd. II. (1322), declares that ' the matters to be established for the estate of the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, should be treated, accorded, and established in parliament, by the king and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, nnd the commonalty of the realm, according as had been before accustomed.
Page 15 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Page 139 - Aquitaine, to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, reeves, ministers and all his bailiffs and faithful, greeting. Know ye that we have granted and by this our charter confirmed to our beloved...
Page 114 - Archbishops, &c., greeting. Know ye that I have granted, and by this my present charter, have confirmed to God and the Holy Church of St.
Page 11 - ABT- 80°belonged to some person whom he calls his Lord, Dominus, to be placed in the north porch of the church of St. Nicholas at Newcastle, there to be chained for common use for the good of his soul.
Page 13 - Nothing can exceed this nave in beauty and gracefulness. But in sublimity it is exceeded by many, . . . and the reason seems to be that a bay of the Lichfield nave is clearly limited in its height. The triforium is made a principal instead of a subordinate feature ; you feel that if by the heightening of the pier-arches it were placed at a different level from the eye much of its beauty would be lost.
Page 224 - Edward by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine...
Page 2 - ... queen;' probably he would not have been appeased without blood also, if she who possessed the art of charming fury-passions had not been at his side. In Yorkshire the king and queen were met by two hundred gentlemen of the shire, in coats of velvet, with four thousand tall yeomen and serving-men, who on their knees made a submission by the mouth of sir Robert Bowes, and gave the king 900Z. Katharine witnessed a pageant of no less interest, when the archbishop of York, with upwards of three hundred...