Archaeologia CambrensisW. Pickering, 1853 - Electronic journals |
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... king and his succes- sors . The order , however , continued to maintain its existence in other parts of the world , and is said to have descended through later years to our own days , although its primary and distinctive character has ...
... king and his succes- sors . The order , however , continued to maintain its existence in other parts of the world , and is said to have descended through later years to our own days , although its primary and distinctive character has ...
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... King Henry re - founded it as a cell to his new abbey of Reading , and we may be perfectly sure that the oldest portions of the present church were erected in connexion with that foundation . Indeed the church appears to have been built ...
... King Henry re - founded it as a cell to his new abbey of Reading , and we may be perfectly sure that the oldest portions of the present church were erected in connexion with that foundation . Indeed the church appears to have been built ...
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... King Henry in the twelfth , and even King Merwald in the seventh century , arguing against certain comparatively reasonable antiquaries who had attributed to this part of of the church an Anglo - Saxon origin , and assigning it to some ...
... King Henry in the twelfth , and even King Merwald in the seventh century , arguing against certain comparatively reasonable antiquaries who had attributed to this part of of the church an Anglo - Saxon origin , and assigning it to some ...
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... king , and in 1070 the earldom of Shrewsbury , with 357 manors in Shropshire , were conferred by the Conqueror on his kinsman Roger de Montgomery . Among them was Stoke , which Earl Roger granted with twenty - two others to Walter de ...
... king , and in 1070 the earldom of Shrewsbury , with 357 manors in Shropshire , were conferred by the Conqueror on his kinsman Roger de Montgomery . Among them was Stoke , which Earl Roger granted with twenty - two others to Walter de ...
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... king in capite . " Lawrence was the son of William de Ludelow , of a family who had their origin in the town of that name , and from which the Parliamentary General descended . The Patent Rolls show that , in the 19th of Edward I. , he ...
... king in capite . " Lawrence was the son of William de Ludelow , of a family who had their origin in the town of that name , and from which the Parliamentary General descended . The Patent Rolls show that , in the 19th of Edward I. , he ...
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