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Author: Lewin George Maine
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Category : Stamford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: Lewin George Maine
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021013491
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Languages : en
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This book provides a detailed history of the village of Stanford-in-the-Vale, located in the county of Berkshire, England. It includes information on the town's origins, notable figures and events from its past, and various aspects of its social and cultural life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Lewin George Maine
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230220833
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... little chamber next the new chamber, the maiden's chamber, the wainscot chamber, and a great many more. There was a kitchen, a buttery, a pastry-house, a dry larder, a wet larder, a store-house, a brew-house, a bake-house, an armoury-house, and porter's lodge. It was elaborately furnished; for instance, in the parlour there was a long table and a frame, one table and a square frame, one livery cupboard, three green carpets, two green cloth chairs, one black wrought velvet chair, laid with silver and gold lace, three long cushions of red satin, laid with gold lace, thirteen green cloth stools, six leather stools, one cushion of Turkey Work. In my lady's chamber there were hangings of dornex, a folding bedstead covered with green cloth and laid with watchet lace, surmounted with eight plumes of feathers, two chairs, and two little green stools. Such are specimens of the manner in which great houses were furnished in the reign of Elizabeth. Such was the great house at Wadley in 1572. Then this neighbourhood was honoured by a visit from the Virgin Queen, Queen Elizabeth, of glorious memory. She came to Wadley in July, 1574, and no doubt on that occasion there were great rejoicings. Then, probably, all the neighbouring gentry would hasten to do her honour. The Knollys, of Stanford; the Yates, of Buckland; the Puseys, of Pusey; the Fettiplaces, of Childrey; the Hydes, of Denchworth; the Ayshcombes, of Lyford; the Packers, of Shellingford, would come, mounted and attended, to many a hunting and hawking party, to many a masque and pageant, in order to do honour to the Queen. In the train of Sir Francis Knollys, or his son, might very well have been found a Giles Gosling and a Mike Lambourne, for Goslings and Lambournes and Varneys are names that...

Author: Lewin George Maine (M.A., Vicar of St. Lawrence, Reading.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: Lewin George Maine
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359695260
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Languages : en
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Lewin G. Maine
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783348042079
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A Berkshire Village - its history and antiquities is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: Gordon Timmins
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Category : Stanford in the Vale (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Julie Ann Godson
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This little compendium includes two works of remarkable interest to social historians and residents of the Vale of White Horse, an area once in Berkshire and now re- classified as Oxfordshire. At a time of rapid change in the English countryside, local curate Reverend Lewin G. Maine sought to record for posterity rural people's recollections of a lost way of life. Part one, "A Berkshire Village: its history and antiquities" (1866), is his collection of memories and true tales from the villages of the Vale which has charmed generations of readers. Part two, "The Scouring of the White Horse" (1859), is author Thomas Hughes' way of recording the very last "Pastime", the festival accompanying the 1857 ceremony of cleaning the ancient chalk horse depicted in the turf at Uffington. As well as giving a full account of the history and sports of the Pastime, Hughes' novel also records a time when cows were milked by hand, cheeses made on the farm, and the journey to market was by pony and trap. Part three contains a wealth of information for family-history researchers.

Author: Lewin Maine
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523690862
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Languages : en
Pages : 104

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First published in 1866 as "A Berkshire Village: its history and antiquities", this little collection of memories and true tales from the Vale of the White Horse has charmed generations of readers. At a time of rapid change in the English countryside the author, curate Reverend Lewin G. Maine, sought to record for posterity local people's recollections of a lost way of life. Now, exactly 150 years later, Rev Maine's work has been given an extra lease of life in this new edition edited by local historian Julie Ann Godson. With more than 20 delightful period illustrations, the book takes the reader from the most obscure period of British history through to the final days of a truly rural existence before the Great Western Railway thundered into this quiet corner of England.

Author: Eamon Duffy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300197764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. From reviews of the first edition: “A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a compelling read.”—Patricia Morrison, Financial Times “Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated. . . . Duffy’s analysis . . . carries conviction.”—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books “This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and specialist alike.”—Peter Heath, Times Literary Supplement “[An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”—Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal