The Tourist's Hand-book to Perth and Neighbourhood: With Historical Notanda, Civil & EcclesiasticalJ. Dewar & Son, 1849 - 88 страници |
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Страница 17 - ... until the houses of the grey and black friars, with the costly edifice of the Carthusian monks, were laid in ruins. None of the gentlemen or sober part of the congregation were concerned in this unpremeditated tumult ; it was wholly confined to the lowest of the inhabitants, or, as Knox designs them,
Страница 16 - The audience had quietly dismissed, and a few idle persons only loitered in the Church, when an imprudent priest, wishing to try the disposition of the people, or to...
Страница 16 - ... decorated with images, and prepared to celebrate mass. A boy, having uttered some expressions of disapprobation, was struck by the priest. He retaliated by throwing a stone at the aggressor, which, falling on the altar, broke one of the images. This operated...
Страница 16 - ... celebrate mass. A boy. having uttered some expressions of disapprobation. was struck by the priest. He retaliated by throwing a stone at the aggressor. which. falling on the altar. broke one of the images. This operated like a signal upon the people present.
Страница 53 - Prince passed an act, forbidding the favourite diversion of foot-ball, substituting in Its place that of shooting with bows and arrows. Every boy, when he came to the age of thirteen, was obliged at stated times to practise
Страница 17 - ... altar, images, and all the ornaments of the church, were torn down and trampled under foot. The noise soon collected a mob, which, finding no employment in the church, flew, by a sudden and irresistible impulse, upon the monasteries ; and although the magistrates of the town and the preachers assembled as soon as they heard of the riot, yet neither the persuasions of the one, nor the authority of the other, could restrain the fury of the people, until the houses of the gray and black friars,...
Страница 53 - Port, on the left hand of the road leading to Huntingtower, called the Bow Butt, where this exercise was practised ; but the strong and expert archers had their bow marks on the South Inch. Near the south end of this Inch stands yet a stone which tradition says was the southern mark. The northern is near to the north-west side of the ditch that surrounds the mound (Cromwell's citadel). It was fixed on a rising ground called the " Scholars
Страница 9 - Harbour, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice.
Страница 83 - It is pity that it chanced on the son, and not on the father ; but seeing that it so hath happened, we cannot be against fortune.
Страница 74 - Second were crowned at Scone, and resided at Perth, as the metropolis of the nation.— Cant.