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Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)

Shaw, Henry · London : W. Pickering · leaf 339

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rmons and the quaintness of hisillustrations. On one occasion hewas declaiming with great vehemenceagainst the sin of drunkenness, andhaving exhausted the usual time towhich the length of the sermon waslimited, he turned the hour-glass, andsaid, Brethren, I have somewhatmore to say on the nature… … in our plate, at present in the cabinet of M. Debruge at Paris, is richlyenamelled and set with jewels. We learn from a note in a reprint of thetract on the fall of the house in Blackfriars, above mentioned, that the frameof one preserved in old St. Dunstans church, Fleet Street, was of…

Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval

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