1360

• A description of it by DR. JOHNSON would be a great painting[1360]; you might write another London, a Poem I am charmed with your condescending affectionate expression, “let us keep each other's kindness by all the means in our power;” my revered Friend! —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3
• He expatiated in praise of Lichfield and its inhabitants, who, he said, were 'the most sober, decent people[1360] in England, the genteelest in proportion to their wealth, and spoke the purest English[1361].' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
• [1360] In the Petri Exceptiones (between 1050 and 1075)[1361] it is expressly stated, amongst other statements of what does not make a marriage, that it is not the benediction of the priest, but the mental purpose of the man and woman. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• About 1360 or earlier, she married Edward Lord Le Despenser, who left her a widow November 11th, 1375. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• Riots and misery were the first result of the passing of hand weaving and spinning In the Vision of Piers Ploughman (1360) are these lines Cloth that cometh fro the wevyng Is nought comly to were Till it be fulled under foot Or in fullyng stokkes Wasshen wel with water And with taseles cracched Y-touked and y-tented And under taillours hande Just so in the colonies four centuries later, cloth that came from the weaving was not comely to wear till it was fulled under foot or in fulling-stocks, washed well in water, scratched and dressed with teazels, dyed and tented, and put in the tailor's hands. —  Home Life in Colonial Days

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