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... ground , and devoutly prayed that God would be pleased for the merits of His holy Saint and Martyr , Winifride , of whose precious body they bore with them a part , to relieve them in their present distress . In the course of the night ...
... ground , and devoutly prayed that God would be pleased for the merits of His holy Saint and Martyr , Winifride , of whose precious body they bore with them a part , to relieve them in their present distress . In the course of the night ...
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... ground of a greenish colour . Variously - shaped medallions of gold , ruby , and azure were inter- mixed , in which were pictured the lives and mira- cles of many holy saints , with a legend below each in Lombardic characters . The ...
... ground of a greenish colour . Variously - shaped medallions of gold , ruby , and azure were inter- mixed , in which were pictured the lives and mira- cles of many holy saints , with a legend below each in Lombardic characters . The ...
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... ground . The roof was groined in stone , and cu- riously painted in divers brilliant colours . The high altar was raised on many steps ; it was of stone , supported on gilt pillars , and had a rich cloth of golden tissue hanging partly ...
... ground . The roof was groined in stone , and cu- riously painted in divers brilliant colours . The high altar was raised on many steps ; it was of stone , supported on gilt pillars , and had a rich cloth of golden tissue hanging partly ...
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... ground on each side was richly diapered , and the canopies crocketed in the usual Early English style . The first care of the priest on his return was to in- spect the condition and present appurtenances of the church at Letherton ...
... ground on each side was richly diapered , and the canopies crocketed in the usual Early English style . The first care of the priest on his return was to in- spect the condition and present appurtenances of the church at Letherton ...
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... ground , and awaited the com- pletion and proper settlement of the walls . It would have seemed to us very tall for a wooden roof , being of nearly the same height as the walls themselves , so that it formed a very acute angle at the ...
... ground , and awaited the com- pletion and proper settlement of the walls . It would have seemed to us very tall for a wooden roof , being of nearly the same height as the walls themselves , so that it formed a very acute angle at the ...
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Page 48 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 187 - And graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought; and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed ; that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church ; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Page 187 - O Almighty God, who art the giver of all health, and the aid of them that seek to thee for succour, we call upon thee for thy help and goodness mercifully to be shewed upon these thy servants, that they being healed of their infirmities, may give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 189 - My lord, I humbly commend my selfe unto your lordshyp, the laste I wrote unto your lordshyp was the xxth daye of thys present monith by the handes of Mr. Wyliamson, by the whych I advertised your lordshyp of the lengthe and greatenes of thys churche, and how we had begon to pull the hole down to the ground, and what maner and fashion they used in pulling it down. I told your lordshyp of a vaute on the ryghte syde of the hyghe altare, that was borne up with fower greate pillars, having abowt it v....
Page 189 - Every of these attendith to hys own office : x of them hewed the walles abowte, amonge the whych ther were 3 carpentars : thiese made proctes to undersette wher the other cutte away, thother brake and cutte the waules.