The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ouse I go with the pole-axe in my hand, for the abbotis a dangerous desperate knave, and a hardy. Out of one of the starting-holes rushed a tender demoiselle, who was conveyed to prison at Dover ;and I brought holy father abbot to Canterbury, and here in ChristchurchI will leave him in prison.* There are too many such stories in theseletters. But we have one painful feeling in reading them—even morepainful than the exposure of hypocrisy and licentiousness—the tone in whi
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ouse I go with the pole-axe in my hand, for the abbotis a dangerous desperate knave, and a hardy. Out of one of the starting-holes rushed a tender demoiselle, who was conveyed to prison at Dover ;and I brought holy father abbot to Canterbury, and here in ChristchurchI will leave him in prison.* There are too many such stories in theseletters. But we have one painful feeling in reading them—even morepainful than the exposure of hypocrisy and licentiousness—the tone in whichthese matters are spoken of. We heartily agree in the opinion of one whfi,in common with all earnest men, hates scoffers:— One would think that tliesight of such an abomination of desolation as they professed to see, musthave filled all who had anything like the love of God in their hearts, or eventhe fear of God before their eyes, with grief and consternation. f Dr. Layton and Dr. Legh have gone together to Fountains Abbey. They?write that the abbot is defamed by the whole people for his profligate life, and. Fountains Abbey. for his dilapidation of the house and wasting of the woods. Before the com-missioners came he possessed himself of a jewel, and a cross of gold ; and soldthem, with plate of the house, to a goldsmith of Cheap. The commissionersproperly compelled the abbot to resign. He joined the Yorkshire iusurrec- • Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 76. + Maitland, p. 225- 254 FUBLIC HEALTH—FEASTS. [1609. substitute is provided for its repeal ? In many things -vre have persevered inclinging to the follies of our ancestors, and not unfrequently we have rejectedtheir wisdom. In matters concerning the health of populous places, thesage warnings of past experience have been treated as delusions. The Sweat-ing-sickness was the terror of England at the beginning of the sixteenthcentury, as the Plague was in the seventeenth, and the Cholera in the nine-teenth. Fil
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