The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, Kent and Sussex, Volume 9William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon F. E. Robinson and Company, 1907 |
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Page 244 - And saying this, let him rise, and lift the veil, and show them the place bare of the cross, but only the cloths laid there in which the cross was wrapped. And when they have seen this, let them set down the thuribles which they...
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Page 244 - Venite et videte locum. And saying this, let him rise, and lift the veil, and show them the place bare of the cross, but only the...
Page 115 - THE GRANDAME. On the green hill top, Hard by the house of prayer, a modest roof, And not distinguished from its neighbour-barn, Save by a slender-tapering length of spire, The Grandame sleeps.
Page 244 - Dominus de sepulchro, and lay the cloth upon the altar. When the anthem is done,- let the Prior, sharing in their gladness at the triumph of our King, in that, having vanquished death, He rose again, begin the hymn Te Deum laudamus. And this begun, all the bells chime out together.
Page 280 - Rossetti, honored, under the name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, among painters as a painter, and among poets as a poet. Born in London, of parentage mainly Italian, 12 May, 1828. Died at Birchington, 9 April, 1882.
Page 42 - By his will made in 1479, after directing that his body should be buried " on the north side of the quer of the church of our Lady of Stanwell, afor the ymage of our Lady, wher the sepulture of our Lord stondith ;" he adds " I will that there be made a playne tombe of marble, of a competent height, to th' entent that yt may ber the blessed body of our Lord, and the sepulture at the time of Estre to stand upon the same.
Page 99 - William de Burgo gave two messuages to that church in Candlewick Street, 1317. John Lofkin, stock-fishmonger, four times mayor, built in the same ground this fair church of St. Michael, and was buried there in the choir, under a fair tomb, with the images of him and his wife in alabaster.