. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . totti^in tf)e3aealme, a;S aljSo iii ^traunfle rontrenes. ©sn[)ere-fore ti)i^ nation toaiS murfje afertre of it, anlr fortlje tiime, fteganne to rejjent antf rememlber (gotrfrom i3)f)om ti^at jplasrite mt(i!jtiMel seme to ht ^tntamonge n^, 2Sttt a^ tTje tfy^eaiSe in tyme relentelr^0 our tfe&otfon al^o in sljorte j^pace IfecageXf. Hume says on this subject that this year (1485) there ragedat this time in London, and other parts of
. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . totti^in tf)e3aealme, a;S aljSo iii ^traunfle rontrenes. ©sn[)ere-fore ti)i^ nation toaiS murfje afertre of it, anlr fortlje tiime, fteganne to rejjent antf rememlber (gotrfrom i3)f)om ti^at jplasrite mt(i!jtiMel seme to ht ^tntamonge n^, 2Sttt a^ tTje tfy^eaiSe in tyme relentelr^0 our tfe&otfon al^o in sljorte j^pace IfecageXf. Hume says on this subject that this year (1485) there ragedat this time in London, and other parts of the kingdom, a spe-cies of malady unknown to any other ages or nation, the sweat-ing sickness, which occasioned the sudden death of great mul-titudes ; though it seemed not to be propagated by any conta-gious infection, but arose from the general disposition of the airand of the human body. In less than twenty-four hours, thepatient commonly died or recovered; but when the pestilence» had exerted its fuiy for a few weeks, it was observed, eitherfrom alterations in the air, or from a more proper regimenwhich had been discovered, to be considerablv ANCIENT ALTAR TOMB IN BERKHAMSTED CHURCH. BERKHAMSTED. ^ The second inscription runs thus :— **|^trc lyrtl) bitrnctr unticr tlyy^ stant tijc botrgc al i^atcrgne, ^sumtjjmr ti)t innf of Enlicrt Inrcnt, (§nit, fati^cr antr matterunto So^)n Inrcut, Bflctor 0f t^c itaiuc, to^fl fiotlj Xsont mangicucftt^ auti flriiamcut^ Qihtn unts3 tfjt^ d^apclof ^awnt So^n,lutirl^c saiU i^atcrnnc tritrtr tTje ^*5 tJaue 0f iHard^, i^t ^M gearof ti^c rrtgn of i^mtj l^ntrg SFiBt. Henry VIII. began to reign in 1509, and consequently,Catherine, the wife of the preceding Robert Incent, died in theyear 1521, outliving her husband 36 years. It is worthy ofremark, that neither of these inscriptions record the ages of thedefunct, an omission seldom met with in the present day. In the chapel on the opposite, or north side of the nave, isa monument of
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