Archaeological Studies on the Two Manors of Ponsbourne & Newgate Street in the Parish of Bishop's Hatfield, Co. Herts

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Simson and Company, 1906 - 16 pages

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Page 293 - Some men make it a case of conscience, whether a man may have a pigeon-house, because his pigeons eat other folks corn. But there is no such thing as conscience in the business : the matter is, whether he be a man of such quality, that the state allows him to have a dove-house ; if so, there's an end of the business ; his pigeons have a right to eat where they please themselves.
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Page 314 - ... out of the window of his chamber in the night, over the wall of the Tower; and had been directed through what part of the ditch he might be best able to wade. Whether he found the right place, or whether there was no safer place, he found the water and the mud so deep, that, if he had not been by the head taller than other men, he must have perished, since the water came up to his chin. The way was so long to the other side, and the fatigue of drawing himself out of so much mud so intolerable,...
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Page 270 - England in 1637, published by his own direction, for the satisfaction of all such who either are or finally might be offended with his scandalous submission made before the High Commission Court Feb. 11, 1635.

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