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Letters to Sir Thomas Roe; 1615-1617

Letters to Sir Thomas Roe; 1615-1617

Carew, George

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235169693
ISBN13: 9781235169694
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.15 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... No. II. The goodlye mannour of Shirbome (p. 48.) Chamberlain says that Sherborne was at first given to Villiers, but he resigned it. In the meanwhile it is beBtowed upon Sir John Digby, which, besides the goodly house and other commodities, is presently worth 800/. a year, and in reasonable time will be double. I cannot yet learn how or why this good fortune is befallen him, but sure it is somewhat extraordinary. (Birch, i. 426.) Castle says that Villiers refused it in a most noble fashion, praying the King that the building of his fortunes may not be founded upon the ruins of another. This disinterestedness on the part of a royal favourite is somewhat remarkable, and was not manifested by Villiers in his other large acquisitions. We may, therefore, look for some other cause than that assigned, and such cause is probably shown by the following curious contemporary document preserved in the State Paper Office, and recently printed by Mr. Noel Sainsbury in the Literary Gazette: -- An inevitable curse by a Norman bishopp to all succeeding times, as appeareth following: ' Osmund, * a Norman knight, almost 600 yeares sithence, com'ing into this cuntrey w1 Will'm the Conqueror, became afterwards Earle of Dorsett, and, being a godlie man, forsooke the earledome and became Bishopp of Salisburie, and gave the lands called Sherborne, thereto adioyning, to remaine to that sea for ever, wth addic'on of a curse to such as should take it from the b'ppricke in greate or small things, not onlie in this world, but in the world to come, unless he made restitution in his life time. ' This Osmund was afterwards canonized a saint, and it happened afterwards that King Stephen tooke from a B'pp of the same sea, called Roger the Riche, the said lands, who after, during his life, ...

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