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If carried out correctly, the back of the material should show a row of short perpendicular lines, each composed of two threads. Two-sided Italian stitch is descriptively named, for it is alike on both sides. This is frequently seen on XVIth and XVIIth century Italian linen work, similar to that mentioned above.
This religious edifice, which is of the XVth century, did not offer any thing remarkable but its tower, which is entire. Rue aux Ours, near the rue de la Vicomté, was erected between the years 1526 and 1557. At the corner of the street of that name, and the rue des Iroquois. The construction of this edifice, dates from the commencement of the XVIth century.
About the commencement of the XVIth century, the houses in the neighbourhood of the church of Saint-Eloi and the rue du Vieux-Palais, were erected; one of them still remains, it is the Hôtel da Bourgtheroulde, which I have already described. The old market was thus divided, into two unequal parts. The spot where the innocent Joan of Arc was burnt in 1431, retains the name of place de la Pucelle.
Formerly, it covered a much larger space of ground than at present; since, in the XVIth century, it occupied the whole of the ground contained between the rue du Vieux-Palais, the church of Saint-Eloi and Saint-Michael; the last mentioned church has disappeared within the last few-years, and is replaced by a handsome building, which is named the Hôtel Saint-Michel.
'Prove it, then, said Nimrod. 'Read out the 17th and 18th verses of the XVIth chapter of Mark, said the disturber of the meeting. The crowd began to close in on the centre, the better to hear the dispute. Misery, standing close to the lantern, found the verse mentioned and read aloud as follows: 'And these signs shall follow them that believe.
Should any one now pretend to deny that Louis XVIth. was beheaded, and allege as proof that no such thing was to be credited, because it had never been discovered as the result of a chemical process, would you hesitate to fault his reasoning?
Ch. in XVIth Century/, 114. /Letters and Papers/, v., 886. Ehses, op. cit., 200-1. Haile, /The Life of Reginald Pole/, 1910, p. 88. /Pol. Hist. of England/, v., 318. /Pol. Hist. of England/, v., 318-19. Ehses, op. cit., 212-13. Gairdner, /Lollardy and the Reformation/, i., 48-52. /Pol. Hist. of England/, v., 344. /Lollardy and the Reformation/, i., 424-35. Cf.
The Boer movement in South Africa, which sprang up after a germination lasting three generations, was brought about by a recrudescence of the spirit which made the Boers of the Netherlands rise against Alva and the Spanish domination in the XVIth century.
The edifice was not entirely completed until the beginning of the XVIth century; but, the tower existed before the end of the XVth. An english tourist has expressed the following sentiments on this magnificent church: «You gaze, and are first-struck with its matchless window: call it rose, or marygold, as you please.
I need not add that this immense edifice, such as we see it at present, is the work of several centuries, beginning in the XIIIth and finishing in the XVIth, excepting that portion which forms the base of the tower of Saint-Romain, and which is much more ancient.
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