The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale: Or, The History and Antiquities of the Abbeys of Jedburgh, Kelso, Melros, and DryburghW.H. Lizars, 1832 - 328 pages |
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Page 79 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 27. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!
Page 212 - I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Page 156 - Claydon, granted for the health of his own soul and the souls of his ancestors a rent-charge of 13s.
Page 5 - In the mid revels, the first ominous night Of their espousals, when the room shone bright With lighted tapers, — the king and the queen leading The curious measures, lords and ladies treading The self-same strains, — the king looks back by chance; And spies a strange intruder fill the dance, Namely, a mere anatomy, quite bare, 'His naked limbs both without flesh and hair, (As we decipher Death,) who stalks about, Keeping true measure till the dance be out.
Page 249 - ... beautiful windows, each sixteen feet in height and eight in breadth, having upright mullions of stone with rich tracery. These windows light eight small square chapels of uniform dimensions, which run along the south side of the nave, and are separated from each other by thin partition walls of stone. The west end of the nave, and five of the chapels included in it, are now roofless. The end next the central tower is arched over — the side aisles and chapels with their original Gothic roof,...
Page 29 - ... and the next two contemporary but remodelled in the 17th century, but the whole was recast in 1887. The buildings that have been mentioned are a residue, those that escaped entire destruction in the Border raids and invasions of the reigns of James V and Mary. In 1524 Dacre reports to Wolsey " little or nothing is left upon the frontiers of Scotland, without it be parte of ald howses, whereof the thak and coverings are taken away, by reason whereof they cannot be brint.
Page iii - The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale, or the History and Antiquities of the Abbeys of Jedburgh, Kelso, Melros, and Dryburgh.
Page 38 - I myself sold them a prisoner for a small horse. They laid him down upon the ground, galloped over him with their lances in rest, and wounded him as they passed. When slain, they cut his body in pieces, and bore the mangled gobbets, in triumph, on the points of their spears. I cannot greatly praise the Scottish for this practice. But the truth is, that the English tyrannized over the borders in a most barbarous manner ; and I think it was but fair to repay them, according to the proverb, in their...
Page 292 - Their devotions, which were performed seven times a-day, began at a very early hour with MATINS. They were awaked by the bell of the dormitory, which was rung as long a time as would be required to say the seven penitential psalms ; during which they dressed themselves, and said their private prayers, till, upon a sign from the prior, they proceeded regularly into the church, each individual kneeling in the middle of the choir, and bowing reverently toward the altar, before he went to his seat. The...
Page 323 - From a minute inspection of the ruins we are led to believe that there are portions of the work of a much earlier date. The arch was the distinctive feature of all structures of the middle ages, as the column was of those of classic antiquity ; and among these ruins we observed no fewer than four distinct styles of arches, — namely, the massive Roman arch with its square sides ; the imposing deep-splayed Saxon ; the pillared and intersected Norman ; and last, the early English pointed arch.