Notices and remains of the family of Tyrwhitt [signed R.P.T.]. Corrected and repr

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Side 132 - The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those that published it. 12 Kings of armies did flee apace; and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Side 82 - As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.
Side 109 - I care little. I am old and worn out in the service of the crown ; but I am mortified to find that your Majesty thinks me capable of giving a judgment which none but an ignorant or a dishonest man could five." "I am determined," said the King, "to have twelve udges who will be all of my mind as to this matter.
Side 62 - Durham, when in his ninetieth year erected an urn in the midst of their shade, to the memory of two of his friends ; inscribing thereon the following classical fragment : In this once favored walk, beneath these Elms, Where thickened foliage, to the solar ray Impervious, sheds a venerable gloom. Oft in instructive converse we beguiled The fervid time, which each returning year To friendship's call devoted. Such things were ; But are, alas! no more.
Side 129 - Nights, for you will want to know what happened one day. Sir Robert was at dinner with Lady Sundon, who hated the Bishop of London, as much as she loved the Church. " Well," said she to Sir R. " how does your Pope do ?" — " Madam," replied he, "he is my Pope, and shall be my Pope ; every body has some Pope or other ; don't you know that you are one? They call you Pope Joan.
Side 109 - Judges gave him to understand that they could not, on this occasion, serve his purpose ; and it is remarkable that all the four were violent Tories, and that among them were men who had accompanied Jeffreys on the Bloody Circuit, and who had been consenting to the death of Cornish and of Elizabeth Gaunt.
Side 109 - April 29, 1686, being the first of the term, a great change was made among the judges in Westminster Hall. There was a new chief justice of the Common Pleas, and another new judge of the same bench; there was a new chief baron ; in fine, four new judges of the several Courts. This made a considerable noise, as the gentlemen now displaced were of great learning and loyalty, and whose only crime had been, they would not give their opinions as several of their brethren had done, that the king by...
Side 109 - The next day I was informed by Mr. Jones, son to the chief justice of that name lately turned out, that his father, upon his dismission, observed to the king, that he was by no means sorry that he was laid aside, old and worn out as he was in his service ; but concerned that his majesty should expect such a construction of the law from him as he could not honestly give; and that none but indigent, ignorant, or ambitious men would give their judgment as he expected; and that to this his majesty made...
Side x - The knights are dust, their swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust," the bonds will be presented on resurrection day.
Side 56 - A Treatise Enumerating the most Illustrious Families of England, Who have been raised to Honour and Wealth by the Profession of the Law.

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