Sussex in the Great Civil War and the Interregnum, 1642-1660Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1910 - 354 pages |
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Page 239 - So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him.
Page 230 - That after the end of Divine Service, Our good people be not disturbed, letted, or discouraged from any lawful recreation...
Page 217 - If we beat the king ninety and nine times', said Manchester, 1 29 March. NEW MODEL ARMY FORMED 137 'yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him ; but if the king beat us once we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves' — to which Cromwell replied : 'If this be so, why did we take up arms at first?
Page 142 - The First Century of scandalous, malignant Priests, made and admitted into benefices by the Prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been ; or a narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of...
Page 7 - Why is it that the oxen, the swine, the women, and all other animals are so long-legged in Sussex ? May it be from the difficulty of pulling the feet out of so much mud by the strength of the ankle, that the muscles get stretched, as it were, and the bones lengthened ? " epoch prior to turnpikes being erected.
Page 230 - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their ale-houses. For when shall the common people have leave to exercise if not upon the Sundays and Holy Days, seeing they must apply their labour and win their living in all working days...
Page 168 - We have taken about 300 ; many of which are poor silly creatures, whom if you please to let me send home, they promise to be very dutiful for time to come, and " will be hanged before they come out again.
Page 247 - Wilmot discerned it farther off, and because he could not behave himself so well in it, .._. commonly prevented, or warily declined it; and never drank when he was within distance of an enemy ; Goring was not able to resist the temptation when he was in the middle of them, nor would decline it to obtain a victory...
Page 57 - Supper; they left not so much as a cushion for the pulpit, nor a chalice for the Blessed Sacrament.
Page 108 - Get thee gone, thou corrupt, rotten book ; earth to earth, and dust to dust ! Get thee gone into the place of rottenness, that thou mayest rot with thy author and see corruption.