Some Account of the Parish of St. Giles, NorwichJarrold & sons, 1886 - 503 pages |
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Aged Alderman Andrew Anno appointed April Beevor bell Bethel street Blomefield Bolingbroke brass Bridgman burials buried Chapel Field Charity Charles Church Monuments Churchwardens City of Norwich Corrick County court Cow hill Culyer Curate Daveney Decr deede ditto Dwelling house Dwelling Edward Esqr Estate formerly freeholder gent George Gift Giles's Church Giles's gate Giles's parish Giles's Street Goodwin Heigham Henry house Dwelling house inscription James John John Lowe Johnson late Lease Mancroft Mary Mayor Memory messuage Minister Miss names Ninham Norfolk parish parish of Saint parish of St Parishioners plate poor Pottergate street pounds Register rent Richard Rigby Robert Robt Sacred Saint Giles Samuel Samuel Thurston Sheriff Sheriff of Norwich Slab Starling Day Stephen stone Suffield Surgeon Taylor Thomas Churchman Thos Tompson Trustees undertenants Upper St wall Ward Wellington lane Wellington square William Willow lane window worsted weaver Yallop yard yearly
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Page 125 - SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers, And put out the light ; Toil comes with the morning, And rest with the night. Dark grow the windows, And quenched is the fire ; Sound fades into silence, — All footsteps retire. No voice in the chambers, No sound in the hall ! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all ! II.
Page 196 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, 185 So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 182 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 187 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 110 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 186 - For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish.
Page 291 - An Act for the better regulating and preserving Parish and other Registers of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials in England.
Page 176 - It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Page 246 - ... standing in the books of the said governor and company of the Bank of England...
Page 306 - Lord's Days then next following, at the close of the morning exercise, in 'the public meeting-place, commonly called the church or chapel, or (if the parties desired it) in the market-place next to the said church or chapel...