Percy Addleshaw: 4 books

A captivating biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)—poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Sidney exemplified the qualities of a courtier: learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive. He was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies.

CONTENTS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY AND ST. PETER IN EXETER THE FABRIC OF THE CATHEDRAL. EXTERIOR The Towers The Roof The North Porch The West Front THE FABRIC OF THE CATHEDRAL. INTERIOR The Nave The Minstrels' Gallery St. Radegunde's Chapel St. Edmund's Chapel Monuments in the Nave The North...

Do I know why Tom Donahue is called “Lucky Tom”? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his fortune with it. For I was...

In reissuing this handbook, which during the lapse of twenty-three years had become out of date in many ways, the editor has introduced considerable alterations in the arrangement of the matter, with a view to facilitating its use as a guide to the various parts of the Cathedral. For suggestions as to...