 Though they were as frugal as possible they could hardly live; some lived on little more than brown bread and water, many had but eight or ten pounds a year to maintain a family, so that a piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks'...  Lancashire: Its Puritanism and Nonconformity - Page 399by Robert Halley - 1872 - 568 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - Dissenters, Religious - 1811 - 802 pages
...tables in six weeks time ; their allowance could scarce afford them bread and cheese. One went to plow six days and preached on the Lord's day ; another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out \varrantsuponsomeofthehearers,... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...that a piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks time ; their allowance could scarce afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough...Another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out warrants upon... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...that a piece of flesh has not come to one of t lu-ir bibles in six weeks time ; their allowance could scarce afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough...Another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out warrants upon... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Religions - 1834 - 562 pages
...piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks' time : their allowance could scarcely afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough six...Another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out warrants upon... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1835 - 248 pages
...seen npon oneof their tahles in six weeks' time : their allowance could scarcely afford them hread and cheese. One went to plough six days, and preached on the Lord's day. Another was forced to cut tohacco fur a livelihood. According to Mr. Baxter, many hundreds of them with their wives and children... | |
 | Daniel Neal - England - 1837 - 648 pages
...piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks' time ; their allowance could scarcely afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough six...Another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out warrants upon... | |
 | Richard Burdon Sanderson - Bible - 1838 - 286 pages
...that a piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks' time; their allowance could scarce afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough...another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued ont warrants upon... | |
 | 1838 - 500 pages
...piece of flesh has not come to one of their tables in six weeks' time: their allowance could scarcely afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough six days, and preached on the Lord's-day. The zealous justices of peace knew the calamities of the ministers, when they issued out... | |
 | Church history - 1839 - 268 pages
...of flesh was not seen upon one of their tables in six weeks1 time : their allowance could scarcely afford them bread and cheese. One went to plough six...Another was forced to cut tobacco for a livelihood. According to Mr. Baxter, many hundreds of them with their wives and children had neither house nor... | |
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