"Tewkesbury" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Henry Bates, Major Elliotts, Captain South, Captain Paris, and six others, succeeded in getting away, and making again for the open country. Dudley had received a wound in the leg, and could only get along with great difficulty. He records that he proceeded on crutches, through Worcester, Tewkesbury, and Gloucester, to Bristol, having been "fed three weeks in private in an enemy's hay mow." Even the most lynx-eyed Parliamentarian must have failed to recognise the quondam royalist general of artillery in the helpless creature dragging himself ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
... by Henry VI. we have chiefly to notice the complaint, which the traders of Tewkesbury made to the Government, that "their boats and trowes conveying all manner of merchandise down the Severn to Bristol, &c.," had been stopped at the coast of the Forest by great multitudes of the common people dwelling thereabouts, who seized their vessels, carried ...
— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls
... St. Paul's is closely associated. At St. Paul's the Yorkist leaders pledged their allegiance to the unhappy Henry VI. on the Sacrament—only to break it. After Barnet the dead bodies of the king-maker and his brothers were exposed, and after Tewkesbury the murdered corpse of Henry received similar treatment. Most striking of all is the grim figure of Richard of Gloucester. He it was who caused Jane Shore to be put to open penance on the ground that she had bewitched him, she "going before the Cross on a Sunday with a taper in her hand," says Stow, ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul - An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch • Arthur Dimock
... well beseem, To gaze upon her field of ancient fame And muse on the sad thrall's most piteous dream, By whom a 'shadow like an angel came,' Crying out on Clarence, its wild eyes agleam, Accusing echoes here still falter and flee, 'That stabbed me on the field by Tewkesbury.' ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... last resting-places of some barber-surgeons are curious epitaphs. At Tewkesbury Abbey one in form of an acrostic ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
... very early in this, or of a late period in the preceding century, and exhibits single figures under rich canopies: over the head of one of these, (the kneeling figure of a monk in his cowl,) is a scroll inscribed "Magister Henricus de Mammesfeld me fecit." In the windows of Tewkesbury Abbey Church are several single figures of this period, some of knights in armour. In the chancel of Stanford Church, Northamptonshire, are single figures of the apostles in painted glass, each appearing within an ogee-headed canopy, cinquefoiled within the head and ...
— The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. • Matthew Holbeche Bloxam |
