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This chapter is comprised of annotated and translated source texts on the memory of Joan of Arc.
. Prayer : O God, who, for the peace and tranquillity of the inhabitants of England, willed that the blessed Thomas thy martyr and earl should fall by the sword of the persecutor, grant propitious, that all who devoutly reverence his memory on earth, may merit to obtain worthy reward along with him in Heaven, through our Lord. Prosa : The
preserve our peace where he is concerned, with due consideration to our position, that we are indeed willing to do. To do this, Holy Father, is your concern, for you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom are contracted every day; and how much it will tarnish your Holiness’s memory if (which God forbid
you and other sinners. In testimony of which things, for your lordship’s consideration, I have appended [my] seal. Your Manuel de Fieschi, notary to the lord pope, your devoted servant. 56 Memories in the reign of Richard II (a) Richard’s attempt at canonization i Westminster Chronicle , 1385 and 1390, pp
the abovesaid earldom, castles, manors, towns, honours, lands and tenements, hundreds, sheriff’s office, tannaries, minerals and chases pertaining, as abovesaid, in perpetuity, in exactly the same way that the abovesaid Edmund held them at the day of his death and how they came into the hands of the lord Edward once king of England, of celebrated memory, our father. [The same Piers] to perform for us
of your kingdom, and we sent them to your grace in writing by the lords Bartholomew Badlesmere and William Inge; but in truth up to now they are not being in any way observed. Moreover, revered lord, in the ordinances made by Lord Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, of honoured memory, it was shown that many persons remaining as your confidential advisers and in other
Ninus who built Nineveh, and Cres who built Crete, and Romulus who built Rome, and the queen Mathys who built Mantua, all called them by their own names. 4 In the same way Janus called Janua by his own name. For the ancients desired that their names should be perpetuated and their memory be propagated through the ages. Accordingly, they built cities and imposed their names upon them, so that—although they
offers a fascinating insight into the place of images in the devotion of people from a wide range of society, and the institutional memory, keyed to specific material objects, that kept the names of benefactors in remembrance. As noted in the Introduction to this section, the hermit was probably the chapel’s caretaker; he may also have collected alms or tolls for the maintenance of the bridge. Modernised from the English text in
third age of the world, it is obvious that this Genoa was also built in the third age. Chapter two: The era in which Genoa was expanded. We may easily learn of the time in which Genoa was expanded if we recall to memory certain things which were mentioned above. For we said earlier that when Troy was destroyed, three princes left that place and came into Italy, namely: Antenor, who founded the city of Padua; Aeneas, who
–2. (i) Will of William Tailer In the name of God, Amen. I Sir William Tailer, chantry priest of the church of our Lady in Sandwich, being in good mind and perfect memory, make my testament and last will in this manner. First I bequeath my soul into the hands of almighty God and to our blessed Lady St Mary, and my body to be buried within our Lady’s chapel within the aforesaid church of our Lady. Item I bequeath 4