Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Volumen13

Portada
Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1898
 

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 4 - ... of the city; and that is called the Mayor's play, where every one that will comes in without money, the Mayor giving the players a reward as he thinks fit to show respect unto them.
Página 3 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of interludes come to town, they first attend the mayor, to inform him what nobleman's servants they are, and so to get licence for their public playing; and if the mayor like the actors, or would show respect to their lord and master, he appoints them to play their first play before himself and the aldermen and common council of the city : and that is called the mayor's play, where every one...
Página 35 - Rotulorum for the time being, amongst other records of every of the same counties where any such enrolment shall be so made, to the intent that every party that hath to do therewith, may resort and see the effect and tenor of every such writing so enrolled.
Página 35 - God 1536, no manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, shall pass, alter, or change from one to another, whereby any estate of inheritance or freehold shall be made or take effect in any person or persons, or any use thereof to be made, by reason only of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing, indented, sealed, and enrolled...
Página 232 - Slabs are well-known authorities on their respective subjects. By his will Mr. Creeny bequeathed to the Society fifty volumes from his library. These have now been received from his executors, and a list of them will be found at the end of Volume XIII. of the Society's Papers. Mr. Charles Candler has been elected to fill the place on the Committee rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Creeny. The Society has also lost one of its most distinguished members by the death of Sir AW Franks, KCB, etc., President...
Página 3 - ... all Fencers, BearWards, Common Players in Interludes and Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this Realm or towards any other honourable Personage of greater Degree...
Página 35 - ... before the Custos Rotulorum and two Justices of the Peace, and the Clerk of the Peace of the same county or counties, or two of them at the least, whereof the Clerk of the Peace to be one ; and the same enrolment to be had and made within six months next after the date of the same writings indented.
Página 9 - A woman that had made away her husband, And sitting to behold a tragedy, At Lynn, a town in Norfolk, Acted by players travelling that way — Wherein a woman that had murdered hers Was ever haunted with her husband's ghost, The passion written by a feeling pen, And acted by a good tragedian — She was so moved with the sight thereof As she cried out, ' the play was made by her,' And openly confessed her husband's murder.
Página 17 - Knevet, the author, referring to the civic dislike of the feast, says, "many sanctimonists, that, like the men of China, thinke themselves wiser than all the world beside, doe inveigh against it," and warming with his subject, his indignation against the Norwich Puritans bursts forth in verse : — " But some there be that are so pure and sage, That they...
Página 2 - I need not make long discourse of my parents, who for their gravity and honest life is well known and esteemed amongst their neighbours, namely, in the City of Norwich, where I was bred and born. But as out of one self-same clod of clay there sprouts both stinking weeds and delightful flowers, so from honest parents often grow most dishonest children ; for my father had care to have me in my nonage brought up at school, that I might through the study of good letters grow to be a friend to myself...

Información bibliográfica