CHAPTER XXXIX. P. I.—p. 58. A CHAPTER FOR THE INFORMATION OF THOSE WHO MAY VISIT DONCASTER, AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE WHO FREQUENT THE RACES THERE. My good Lord, there is a Corporation, A body,—a kind of body. MIDDLETON. CHAPTER XL. P. I.—p. 73. REMARKS ON THE ART OF VERBOSITY. A RULE OF COCCEIUS, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE LANGUAGE AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW. If they which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain, being not in heart persuaded that justice is God's own work, and themselves his agents in this business,—the sentence, of right, God's own verdict, and themselves his priests to deliver it; formalities of justice do but serve to smother right; and that which was necessarily ordained for the common good, is through shameful abuse made the cause of common misery. HOOKER. CHAPTER XLI. P. I.—p. 77. REVENUE OF THE CORPORATION OF DONCASTER WELL APPLIED. DONCASTER RACES. Play not for gain but sport: who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. HERBERT. INTERCHAPTER V.—p. 84. WHEREIN THE AUTHOR MAKES KNOWN HIS GOOD INTENTIONS TO ALL READERS, AND OFFERS GOOD ADVICE TO SOME OF THEM. I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, _with submission to better judgements,—and I leave it to you Gentlemen. I am but one, and I always distrust myself. I only hint my thoughts: You'll please to consider whether you will not think that it may seem to deserve your consideration._—This is a taking way of speaking. But much good may do them that use it! ASGILL. CHAPTER XLII. P. I.—p. 89. DONCASTER CHURCH. THE RECTORIAL TITHES SECURED BY ARCHBISHOP SHARP FOR HIS OWN FAMILY. Say ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown grey, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark'd The human leaf in constant bud and fall? The generations of deciduous man How often hast thou seen them pass away! HURDIS. CHAPTER XLIII. P. I.—p. 94. ANTIQUITIES OF DONCASTER. THE DEÆ MATRES. SAXON FONT. THE CASTLE. THE HELL CROSS. _Vieux monuments,— Las, peu à peu cendre vous devenez, Fable du peuple et publiques rapines! Et bien qu'au Temps pour un temps facent guerre Les bastimens, si est ce que le Temps Oeuvres et noms finablement atterre._ JOACHIM DU BELLAY. CHAPTER XLIV. P. I.—p. 101. HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH DONCASTER. THOMAS, EARL OF LANCASTER. EDWARD IV. ASKE'S INSURRECTION. ILLUSTRIOUS VISITORS. JAMES I. BARNABEE. CHARLES I. CHURCH LIBRARY. They unto whom we shall appear tedious, are in no wise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure. HOOKER. CHAPTER XLV. P. I.—p. 109. CONCERNING THE WORTHIES, OR GOOD MEN, WHO WERE NATIVES OF DONCASTER, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH THAT TOWN.