 | Thomas Fairman Ordish - London (England) - 1904 - 418 pages
...to be had save that Sir Thomas had so commanded ! " Thus much of mine own knowledge," adds Stow, " have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them in some matters to forget themselves." There was a large garden near St Swithin's Church, attached... | |
 | Thomas Fairman Ordish - London (England) - 1904 - 418 pages
...be had save that Sir Thomas had so commanded ! " Thus much of mine own knowledge," adds Stow, " ha-e I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them in some matters to forget themselves." There was a large garden near St Swithin's Church, attached... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - London (England) - 1905 - 472 pages
...father paid his whole rent, which was 6s. 6d. the year, for that half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the...rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves." Bishopsgate Street in the time of Elizabeth presented a far different appearance from that of to-day... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - Great Britain - 1905 - 474 pages
...father paid his whole rent, which was 6s. 6d. the year, for that. half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the...rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves." Bishopsgate Street in the time of Elizabeth presented a far different appearance from that of to-day... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Great Britain - 1913 - 326 pages
...it, ' Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note ' — such is Stow's comment — ' that the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves.' Yet in Cromwell's despite, Throgmorton Street had its amenity. Thence the young Stow could walk to... | |
 | Lewis Einstein - England - 1921 - 392 pages
...garden as well as from others and whoever had the temerity to resist lost his case. "This much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note that the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves."5 One cannot regard corruption as incidental to any system or age, but it would seem as... | |
 | Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Hugh Trevor-Roper - History - 1989 - 320 pages
...to injury, Stow's rent, unlike his garden, remained undiminished. 'Thus much', he comments, 'of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them in some matters to forget themselves': a text which may still be applied to our modern developers.... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...their neglect of their duties of hospitality.6 Stow's preoccupation with social boundaries, his sense that 'the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves', is perhaps to be explained by the fact that he was confronted with the reality of the dizzying social... | |
 | Derek Wilson - History - 2002 - 620 pages
...paid his whole rent, which was 5s. 8d. the year, for that half which 410 was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the...sudden rising of some men, causeth them to forget themselves.161 Cromwell also owned property in Chancery Lane and in the nearby villages of Hackney,... | |
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... that their master Sir Thomas commanded them so to do; no man durst go to argue the matter, but each man lost his land, and my father paid his whole rent, which was 6s. 6d. the year, for that half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have... 
