The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . WORD, AND PYNSON, THE PRINTERS. The following notices of these eminent persons, or oftheir families, which occur in the ChurchwardensAccounts of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster,may prove acceptable to many of our readers. Thelast extract relates to the Powder Plot. 1478. The day of burying of William Cax- 5. , for ij torches and iiij tapers,at a low masse 1 8 1491. At the burying of William Caxton, for iiij torche
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . WORD, AND PYNSON, THE PRINTERS. The following notices of these eminent persons, or oftheir families, which occur in the ChurchwardensAccounts of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster,may prove acceptable to many of our readers. Thelast extract relates to the Powder Plot. 1478. The day of burying of William Cax- 5. , for ij torches and iiij tapers,at a low masse 1 8 1491. At the burying of William Caxton, for iiij torches 6 8 1497. Item in books called Legend of the bequest of William Caxton 13 0 1498. For the knelle of Elizabeth de Word with the great bell 0 6 1500. For the knell of Julian de Word with the great bell 0 6 1504. Reward of Robert Pynson for iiij tapers 0 4 1506. iiij printed books ij of them the Lyfeof St. Kateryn, and other ij ofthe Birth of our Lady, of the giftof the executors of Caxton 1605. Paid for the ringers for ringing atthe time when the ParliamentHouse should have been blown up 10 0 POPULAR ESSAYS ON CHIVALRY,ARCHERY, &c. NO. I. THE ANCIENT KNIGHT *. For long, eloquently observes Mr. James, theChristian religion had struggled alone, a great butshaded light, through the storms of dark and barba-rous ages. Till Chivalry arose there was nothing touphold it; but from that moment, with a championin the field to lead forth the knowledge that hadbeen imprisoned in the cloister, the influence of reli-gion began to increase, the influence of the divinetruth itself gradually wrought upon the hearts ofmen, purifying, calming, refining, tiU the world grewwise enough to separate the perfection of the gospelfrom the weakness of its teachers, and to reject theerrors, while they restrained the power of the churchof Rome. Chivalry stood forth the most glorious institution * The figure of the Knight at the head of this article is areduced copy from au engraving in the 21st volume of th
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