http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Recently added pictures scanned from old books Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:28:00 GMT Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:28:00 GMT 180 http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/presspics/Liam10-70x100-amazon.jpg http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t-q75-487x500.jpg" width="120" height="123" alt="62t.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;T&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet." title="62t.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;T&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878), added on 12th June 2009" /></a></p> <p>This decorative initial letter &#x201C;T&#x201D;, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. The letter features a minstrel with his pipe, lying prostrate on the ground, and being dragged away by one Death, whilst another pours something from a vessel into his mouth, presumably poison.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:06:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-t/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k-q90-493x500.jpg" width="119" height="121" alt="62k.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;K&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet." title="62k.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;K&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878), added on 12th May 2009" /></a></p> <p>This decorative initial letter &#x201C;K&#x201D;, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton representing Death, wearing a fur cap and mantle, and with a flail in its right hand, seizing a nobleman.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 12 May 2009 10:56:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-k/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/006-scantily-clad-british-soldiers/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/006-scantily-clad-british-soldiers/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/tn/006-scantily-clad-british-soldiers-q85-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="The shore was covered with men ready for battle" title="The shore was covered with men ready for battle, from An Island Story (1920), added on 6th May 2009" /></a></p> <p>Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or roughly two thousand years ago, in pre-Internet days.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/006-scantily-clad-british-soldiers/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 06 May 2009 11:42:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/006-scantily-clad-british-soldiers/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/000-Frontispiece-King-Charles/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/000-Frontispiece-King-Charles/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/tn/000-Frontispiece-King-Charles-q75-375x500.jpg" width="120" height="160" alt="Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London" title="Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London, from An Island Story (1920), added on 5th May 2009" /></a></p> <p>King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/000-Frontispiece-King-Charles/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 05 May 2009 11:18:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marshall-AnIslandStory/pages/000-Frontispiece-King-Charles/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/048-Prior-Boltons-Garden-house-at-Canonbury/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/048-Prior-Boltons-Garden-house-at-Canonbury/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/tn/048-Prior-Boltons-Garden-house-at-Canonbury-q75-409x500.jpg" width="119" height="146" alt="Priot Bolton&#x2019;s Garden-house at Canonbury" title="Priot Bolton&#x2019;s Garden-house at Canonbury, from London (Volume II) (1841), added on 27th April 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>From the house we pass to the lawn, which is terminated by a wall with a raised and embowered terrace, from which we look over on the other side to the kitchen-garden, the New River, and thence onwards towards London. At each extremity of this wall is an octagonal garden-house, built by Prior Bolton&#x2014;the one to the left having a small Gothic window in the basement story. (p. 48)</p></div> <p>Canonbury manor is (or was) the country residence of the Priors at Islington, in the 16th century and onwards; Oliver Goldsmith also lived here.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/048-Prior-Boltons-Garden-house-at-Canonbury/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:53:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/048-Prior-Boltons-Garden-house-at-Canonbury/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/096-Milton-at-the-age-of-19/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/096-Milton-at-the-age-of-19/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/tn/096-Milton-at-the-age-of-19-q75-431x500.jpg" width="120" height="139" alt="Milton at the age of 19" title="Milton at the age of 19, from London (Volume II) (1841), added on 21st April 2009" /></a></p> <p>A woodcut of the teenaged boy Milton, the famous poet, when he was nineteen years old. I&#x2019;m sure I didn&#x2019;t have such a frilly neck as a boy.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/096-Milton-at-the-age-of-19/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:52:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/096-Milton-at-the-age-of-19/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/081-Houses-of-Parliament-from-the-River-temp-Charles-II/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/081-Houses-of-Parliament-from-the-River-temp-Charles-II/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/tn/081-Houses-of-Parliament-from-the-River-temp-Charles-II-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II." title="Houses of Parliament from the River, temp Charles II., from London (Volume II) (1841), added on 21st April 2009" /></a></p> <p>The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, in the time of King Charles II, so between (roughly) 1650 and 1685; this is of course long before th 19th century changes, and before Big Ben was built.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/081-Houses-of-Parliament-from-the-River-temp-Charles-II/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:46:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/081-Houses-of-Parliament-from-the-River-temp-Charles-II/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/tn/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge-q85-414x500.jpg" width="119" height="144" alt="[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern" title="[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor pattern, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 20th April 2009" /></a></p> <p>A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:21:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/016-ancient-greek-border-floor-5-edge/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-i/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-i/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/tn/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-i-q90-500x495.jpg" width="119" height="118" alt="62i.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;I&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet." title="62i.&#x2014;Initial capital letter &#x201C;I&#x201D; from Dance of Death Alphabet., from Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (1878), added on 18th April 2009" /></a></p> <p>This decorative initial letter &#x201C;I&#x201D;, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It is also used for &#x201C;J.&#x201D; It features a skeleton (Death) in the guise of an old woman, tugging at a man, a duke, with his hands clasped together as if in prayer or despair.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-i/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:38:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-i/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/pages/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/pages/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/tn/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Fig. 17.&#x2014;Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo." title="Fig. 17.&#x2014;Showing Old Type of Gramme Continuous Current Dynamo., from Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers (1892), added on 9th April 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>Fig. 17 shows the early type of Gramme machine, some of which may still be seen doing good work. (p. 64)</p></div></p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/pages/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo/">(read more...)</a></p> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:45:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Walker-ElectricLightingForShips/pages/017-Old-Type-Of-Gramme-Continuous-Current-Dynamo/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/087-chapel-of-st-pancrace-in-st-augustines-monastery-canterbury/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/087-chapel-of-st-pancrace-in-st-augustines-monastery-canterbury/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/tn/087-chapel-of-st-pancrace-in-st-augustines-monastery-canterbury-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine&#x2019;s Monastery, Canterbury" title="The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine&#x2019;s Monastery, Canterbury, from The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783), added on 7th April 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>The ruins of this little oratory stand near the south-easternmost part of the Abbey-close. It is commonly supposed to be of great antiquity, but this opinion is controverted by Somner, who gives very good reason for his doubts.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/087-chapel-of-st-pancrace-in-st-augustines-monastery-canterbury/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:07:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-Antiquities-VolIII/pages/087-chapel-of-st-pancrace-in-st-augustines-monastery-canterbury/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/208-Upton-Castle-The-Gate-House/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/208-Upton-Castle-The-Gate-House/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/tn/208-Upton-Castle-The-Gate-House-q85-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="Upton Castle: The Gate-House" title="Upton Castle: The Gate-House, from Castles (1926), added on 4th April 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>Situated on a narrow creek running up from Milford Haven&#x2014;quite a separate one from that on which Carew lies, but only two and a half miles from that great castle, is a smaller stronghold, very typical of the solid style of building by which the minor lords of &#x201C;Little England beyond Wales&#x201D; maintained their hold on the land. This is Upton, the patrimonry of the Malefaunts, one of the many knightly families who were vassals of the Earls of Pembroke. It shows a particularly fine and perfect example of a thirteenth-century fate-house, with thwo low but strong drum-towers, and a battlemented and machicolated front between them. The narrow and acutely pointed doorway arch had a portcullis, and, no doubt, a drawbridge over a ditch, which has now been filled up. (p. 208)</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/208-Upton-Castle-The-Gate-House/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:44:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/208-Upton-Castle-The-Gate-House/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/tn/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-q85-330x500.jpg" width="119" height="181" alt="Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs" title="Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs, from The National and Domestic History of England (1878), added on 30th March 2009" /></a></p> <p>I coloured the <a href="438-Border-of-twigs">border of twigs</a> to make a sepia border or frame. some colour clip-art. There is also a <a href="438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green">brown and green Victorian Border</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:11:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/tn/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green-q75-330x500.jpg" width="119" height="181" alt="Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves" title="Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves, from The National and Domestic History of England (1878), added on 30th March 2009" /></a></p> <p>I coloured the <a href="438-Border-of-twigs">border of twigs</a> to make some colour clip-art. There is also a <a href="438-Border-of-twigs-brown">brown border</a>. A rustic border or frame.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green/">(read more...)</a></p> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:10:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/438-Border-of-twigs-brown-and-green/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/14-The-Mummelsee/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/14-The-Mummelsee/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/tn/14-The-Mummelsee-q75-389x500.jpg" width="120" height="154" alt="The Mummelsee." title="The Mummelsee., from Legends of the Black Forest (1890), added on 24th March 2009" /></a></p> <p>A group of water-nymphs bathe in the lake, with the stern figure of the ruler of the lake in the background.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/14-The-Mummelsee/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:54:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/14-The-Mummelsee/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/000-Frontispiece-Burkard-Keller-von-Yburg/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/000-Frontispiece-Burkard-Keller-von-Yburg/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/tn/000-Frontispiece-Burkard-Keller-von-Yburg-q75-388x500.jpg" width="120" height="154" alt="Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg." title="Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg., from Legends of the Black Forest (1890), added on 24th March 2009" /></a></p> <p>A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman atop a tomb, and owls flying in a forest; ws see also the servant running away through the trees at midnight.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/000-Frontispiece-Burkard-Keller-von-Yburg/">(read more...)</a></p> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:11:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wurttemberger-LegendsOfTheBlackforest/pages/000-Frontispiece-Burkard-Keller-von-Yburg/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Bell-BritishLocomotivesIllustrated/pages/24-Re-constructed-Atlantic-type-Locomotive/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Bell-BritishLocomotivesIllustrated/pages/24-Re-constructed-Atlantic-type-Locomotive/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Bell-BritishLocomotivesIllustrated/tn/24-Re-constructed-Atlantic-type-Locomotive-q75-500x300.jpg" width="120" height="72" alt="Re-constructed &#x201C;Atlantic&#x201D; Type Locomotive" title="Re-constructed &#x201C;Atlantic&#x201D; Type Locomotive, from British Locomotives Illustrated (1933), added on 21st March 2009" /></a></p> <p>This steam engine was rebuilt in 1930 to add a &#x201C;booster&#x201D; engine to the front axle of the bogie under the driver&#x2019;s cab. The booster was a small steam engine used only at low speeds, to give additional traction. I&#x2019;m not sure whether to call this engine 4-4-4 or 4-6-4 as a result!</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Bell-BritishLocomotivesIllustrated/pages/24-Re-constructed-Atlantic-type-Locomotive/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:40:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Bell-BritishLocomotivesIllustrated/pages/24-Re-constructed-Atlantic-type-Locomotive/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/pages/124-The-magical-Circle/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/pages/124-The-magical-Circle/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/tn/124-The-magical-Circle-q100-363x500.jpg" width="120" height="165" alt="The Magical Circle of King Solomon" title="The Magical Circle of King Solomon, from The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904), added on 20th March 2009" /></a></p> <p>Magical circle of protection against daemons, and triangle of containment. Figures 124 and 125 are combined on the same page: the circle and the triangle, respectively. Once cannot suppose that it could be in fact precisely a circle of Solomon, with Latin letters and English on it, as well as references to Greek. Even if we assume the English to be annotations added by the editor (Mathers or Crowley), it still seems unlikely to be older than the late mediæval [mdieval] period. But people have asked me to scan it, so here it is.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/pages/124-The-magical-Circle/">(read more...)</a></p> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:43:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/pages/124-The-magical-Circle/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0928-Betchworth-Castle/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0928-Betchworth-Castle/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/0928-Betchworth-Castle-q75-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90" alt="928.&#x2014;Betchworth Castle." title="928.&#x2014;Betchworth Castle., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 14th March 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>[...] Not many months after, the earl&#x2019;s brother, thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, banished in the same cause, set the crown of Richard on Bolingbroke&#x2019;s head. Of course the Arundels found favour with the new king. We find the earl&#x2019;s second son, John Fitzalan, had leave from him to embattle his manor-house at Betchworth (Fig. 928) [<i>i.e.</i> to crenellate, or fortify it]: the present old mansion stands on the castle site. (p. 254)</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0928-Betchworth-Castle/">(read more...)</a></p> Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:34:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0928-Betchworth-Castle/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/138-martyr-forced-to-make-sacrifice-to-the-idol/ <p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/138-martyr-forced-to-make-sacrifice-to-the-idol/"><img src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/tn/138-martyr-forced-to-make-sacrifice-to-the-idol-q75-356x500.jpg" width="120" height="168" alt="Martyrs being tortured with red-hot iron and with fire" title="Martyrs being tortured with red-hot iron and with fire, from Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903), added on 25th Feb 2009" /></a></p> <p><div class="extract"><p>A. Martyrs whose hand is filled with incense mingled with live coals, and who is being constrained by the pain to scatter the incense, is said to have made sacrifice to the idol.</p><p><a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/138-martyr-forced-to-make-sacrifice-to-the-idol/">(read more...)</a></p> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:58:00 GMT liam@holoweb.net (Liam Quin) http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gallonio-TorturesAndTorments/pages/138-martyr-forced-to-make-sacrifice-to-the-idol/