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This controversy, in which Mr Browne has endeavoured to prove that Thoresby's Lady Chapel was placed on the north side of the nave, is far too long and intricate a business to find a place in this book.
Vol. ii., p. 74. Vol. i., p. 732. Vol. ii., p. 738. Vol. ii., p. 709; ii., p. 45; ii., 601. Vol. iii., p. 727; v. 7, 8. The women were remarkably active in defending the town. Thoresby's Leicester, 4to, p. 128. Hist. of Rebellion, edition 1712, vol. ii., p. 652. Vol. i., p. 661. Vol. iii., p. 357. Vol. iii., p. 113, 358. Vol. i., p. 726. Vol. i., p. 694.
It is asserted in Thoresby's History of Leeds, page 255, that "he had two Christian names, James-Edward, supposed to have been bestowed upon him in compliment to the Pretender;" and he is so named on his sepulchral monument.
Even Roger's transepts did not extend beyond the aisle walls of the new choir, and their place was taken by the present eastern transepts, which are each merely a bay of the aisle, raised to the same height as the vault of the choir itself, and open to the choir from top to bottom. There has been a dispute whether or no this presbytery was completed in Thoresby's lifetime.
Under the pretence of maintaining some philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and 'personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the office. In Thoresby's "Diary" we read, "Tuesday, July 6th. in my time, and staid all the morning with me discoursing, and his business to get a man discharged, which I did do for him.
Under the pretence of maintaining some philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and 'personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the office. In Thoresby's "Diary" we read, "Tuesday, July 6th. in my time, and staid all the morning with me discoursing, and his business to get a man discharged, which I did do for him.
There is an expressive, and amusingly inconsequential 'though' in the following note from Thoresby's Diary for June 17, 1722: 'Mr. Too frequently it betrayed in its appearance, 'dirty and contemptible with age, a careless indifference quite in keeping with other externals of worship.
Thoresby's face was very like some fabric subjected to chemical experiment, from which one color and aspect has been suddenly and utterly discharged to make room for something different and new. Between the first and last there waits a blank. With this blank full upon her, she stood there for one brief, unprecedented instant in her life, a figure without presence or effect.
Thoresby's face was very like some fabric subjected to chemical experiment, from which one color and aspect has been suddenly and utterly discharged to make room for something different and new. Between the first and last there waits a blank. With this blank full upon her, she stood there for one brief, unprecedented instant in her life, a figure without presence or effect.
Close to the General, he waited courteously for a long sentence of Mrs. Thoresby's to be ended, and then said, simply, "Uncle James, this is my friend Miss Leslie Goldthwaite. My brother, Dr. Ingleside why, where is Noll?" Dr. Oliver Ingleside had stepped out of the circle in the last half of the long sentence.