Excursions in the county of Norfolk [by T.K. Cromwell]., Volume 2

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown: J. Greig ... and P. Youngman, Witham, and Maldon, Essex., 1819

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Page 22 - The walls of the keep are mostly three yards thick, and the whole is encompassed by a deep ditch and bold rampart, on which was a strong wall with three towers. These the possessors of Hunstanton, Reydon, and the two Woottons, were bound by their tenures constantly to defend.
Page 32 - The chancel, or choir, has also its aisles ; and here is a transept, and two towers at the west end. The roof is supported by twenty-two columns; of which those east of the transept are formed by a cluster of five shafts to each. In this part of the building...
Page 63 - Isabel, Countess of Warwick, by her will, dated 1439, gave her tablet with the image of our Lady, having a glass for it, to be offered to our Lady of Walsingham ; as also her gown with wide sleeves, and a tabernacle of silver, resembling that of our Lady of Caversham.
Page 38 - ... towards the support of the poor brethren of the guild, to the blind, lame, and other distressed persons; to poor clerks keeping school, and to poor religious houses, as well of men as women, to the lepers in and about Lynn, and in the repairs of the parish church and chapels, and to the maintaining of several aqueducts for providing the town with water. The copy of the ordinances of this guild, as preserved in Parkyns, is strikingly illustrative of the domestic manners of these early times.—...
Page 114 - In 1679 Dr. Owen Hughes, Commissary to the Bishop, and Official to the Archdeacon, of Norwich, directed a commission to be certified of the state of the chancel ; and upon its being found in a ruinous condition, he sequestered the impropriate tithes to repair it, and it was repaired accordingly. This is an instance of the bishop's or archdeacon's power to sequester impropriate tithes, if the owners or their farmers refuse or neglect to repair the chancels, which we see too often in a ruinous state.
Page 95 - He gave thirty stone of lead to the church, work and a suit of vestments of white damask, branched with angels of gold, or lily pots, like the red suit in the said church ; and a cow to the parish.
Page 30 - ... church-yard is a square building, called the almshouse, built in the reign of James I., by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, for the accommodation of a governess and twelve poor women. The church is a curious ancient structure, and presents in its western front some singular architectural ornaments : it consists of only one aisle, with a square tower near the centre. The font is a large ancient piece of workmanship. Castle Rising formerly sent two members to parliament, but was disfranchised...
Page 92 - Roger's vineyard, at Parson's Green, all of Burgundy grapes, and seemingly all perfectly ripe. I did not see a green half-ripe grape in all this great quantity. He does not expect to make less than fourteen hogsheads of wine. The branches and fruit are remarkably large, and the vines very strong.
Page 57 - Bigod held land here of the Abbot of Ely soon after the Conquest, which at the survey he held of the king, so that it is observed both the Conqueror and Roger made no scruple of robbing the church of its possessions. The church has a nave, a north and south aisle, and a chancel - at the west end of the nave is .1 round tower with five bells.
Page 147 - Wereham church, a well, called St. Margaret's, was much frequented in the times of popery. Here, on St. Margaret's day, the people regaled themselves with ale and cakes, music and dancing. Alms were given, and offerings and vows made, at the sainted wells of this kind, which was called wellworship.

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