This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... in that manner commaunded, it will cost your Lordship Warrants for Bucks, and Letters of Priviledge, that your Tenants raise not 63 head (a) A gainful end of paine-full reading. (a) Feare of private harmemakes publike hatred often to arise from long-laid rest. (a) head against mee: weening my com-ming to bee ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... in that manner commaunded, it will cost your Lordship Warrants for Bucks, and Letters of Priviledge, that your Tenants raise not 63 head (a) A gainful end of paine-full reading. (a) Feare of private harmemakes publike hatred often to arise from long-laid rest. (a) head against mee: weening my com-ming to bee the overthrow of their Posterity. I protest thats not my purpose, but to put a foote the Mistery of Winter and Sommer-drownings, to the comfort of the Countrey, and present profit of the present Inhabitants: humbly praying your Lord-shipp, as you shall receive a great increase: so, you do not (according to the new fashion) by extreme racking, ransake the succeeding Issue of the faithfull Followers of your eldest Ancestors, whose old gotten-glory, at Rodes and Malta (in defence of the holy land) the Brittish Traditions and Recordes, in great aboundance, doe testifie. I have done with my Mechanicals, and the hopefull river of Wye; only I will fixe this accidentall merryment in the Frontispice (or broad-brow) of my Preface to my Water-workes: signifying the cause of these excursions to proceed from un-beleeving creatures, possessed and puf-pasted with pride and peevish opposition. An act of Parliament will bee required for joyning of Peter-Church, Vow-church and Torneston, there distance beeing not a mile a sunder; Turneston having onely one inhabitant to make a congregation; the living extending it selfe but unto ten pounds yearely, two of them straining them-selves to make forty in the whole. A most miserable alowance for Preacher and his Curate; and most miserable the time when Ignorance (out of heate of a preposterous zeale not able to render a reason of the faith they hold, nor well know whereof they do affirme) will adventure (with...
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