...January, 1533. WILLIAM TINDALE." JOHN LAMBERT. 'THE true name of this admirable man was Nicholson ; •* but, in order to avoid the dangers which threatened...as he suffered for the cause of truth in the year 1,538. We have not likewise the precise place of his birth : Only it is affirmed, that he was born...

...Weidler f and Chambers J are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatous clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The latter says, It is certain that the art of constructing clocks, such as those now in use, was first...

...Basques (inhabitants of Biscay) were the fifst Europeans who sought the whales in their porthcm retreats, about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. Towards the close of the latter, the English first attempted this fishery ; for, according, to Hackluyt,...

...January, 1533. WILLIAM TINDALE." JOHN LAMBERT. 'T,HE true name of this admirable man was Nicholson ; * but, in order to avoid the dangers which threatened...where he acquired the learned languages, and (what was oetter than them) his conversion to GOD from popish superstition and the love of this evil world The...

...Weidler f and Chambers ^ are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatons clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The latter says, It is certain that the art of constructing clocks, such as those now in use, was first...

...nations; and it was not usual for the more civilized states to employ such commercial agents until about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century (1). It appears to have been about the twelfth century that this office was first instituted; but the...

...but judging from the form and appearance of the type, it would seem to have been executed at Paris, about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century." It is also said that the volume contains two books ilc Imagine Mundi, by Honorius of Autun; to which...

...an ancestor, Sir Andrew Murray, with Margaret, daughter and sole heir of James Barclay of Balvaird, about the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century. Balvaird Castle is now uninhabited, and in ruins. — Burkc's Petro^t; Ckamb. Gas. of Scot., vol. I....

...The chapels of the flamboyant pointed style, which border the chancel, appear to be an addition made about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The vaults, as well in the chancel as the naves, are pointed with groined mouldings. Flying buttresses...

...The chapels of the flamboyant pointed style, which border the chancel, appear to be an addition made about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. The vaults, as well in the chancel as the naves, are pointed with groined mouldings. Flying buttresses...