In provincial synods across France, local Eusebiuses were put to the task; by May 1565 the results were piling up in Geneva, ‘tantae molis’ lamented Beza ‘ut camelum, nedum asinum possint obruere’.

But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]

By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.