Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . anged or sometimes burned ; but thievesare hanged . . generally on the gibbet or gallows,saving in Halifax, where they are beheaded in a strangemanner. Rogues and vagabonds are often stocked and whipped ;scolds are ducked upon cucking-stools in the water. . (16) Universities and Schools. Oxford (which lieth west and by north from London)standeth most pleasantly, being environed in manner roundabout with woods on the hills aloft, and goodly rivers inthe bottoms and valleys beneath, whose courses would breedno small commodity to t
Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . anged or sometimes burned ; but thievesare hanged . . generally on the gibbet or gallows,saving in Halifax, where they are beheaded in a strangemanner. Rogues and vagabonds are often stocked and whipped ;scolds are ducked upon cucking-stools in the water. . (16) Universities and Schools. Oxford (which lieth west and by north from London)standeth most pleasantly, being environed in manner roundabout with woods on the hills aloft, and goodly rivers inthe bottoms and valleys beneath, whose courses would breedno small commodity to that city and country about, if suchimpediments were removed as greatly annoy the same andhinder the carriage which might be made thither also fromLondon. That of Cambridge is distant from London aboutforty and six miles north and by east, and standeth very well,saving that it is somewhat near unto the fens ; whereby thewholesomeness of the air is not a little corrupted. It is excel-lently well served with all kinds of provision, but especially 0. +i: St B. biTT l^ 3oijn ^mflfflfr af ibon rfmn mirot )Iir GmnrE of i^hmnae )&mo&Ur latr ofttrifltrDimljaDi iiitftp rrtiuitp of/joritrfijuiniriiiiii fffpiVjoijnifemB&lir fijjfb Htifi limafiurwft ra Hjr iiumrtl) of ^imaiars «nii n» *r-urnrr of our fvrtt 6a&.i5 a +. Brass of John Wingfield, 1584
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