Pleasant Days in Pleasant PlacesHardwicke & Bogue, 1878 - 293 pages |
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... monks have long since been levelled with the dust , and a dovecot and a portion of the outer walls of the convent garden alone remain . When we last visited the spot , a troop of merry children were making the welkin ring again with ...
... monks have long since been levelled with the dust , and a dovecot and a portion of the outer walls of the convent garden alone remain . When we last visited the spot , a troop of merry children were making the welkin ring again with ...
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... monks secured in strong iron boxes behind . In such veneration was the saint held that part of his relics were transferred to Glaston- bury early in the tenth century , if we may believe the monkish historians . Pope Calixtus , however ...
... monks secured in strong iron boxes behind . In such veneration was the saint held that part of his relics were transferred to Glaston- bury early in the tenth century , if we may believe the monkish historians . Pope Calixtus , however ...
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... monks used partially to rest while saying their nocturns and lauds . These are of solid oak , and for the most part gro- tesquely carved below . On turning up one seat we saw in bold relief the figures of some monks out in a boat at sea ...
... monks used partially to rest while saying their nocturns and lauds . These are of solid oak , and for the most part gro- tesquely carved below . On turning up one seat we saw in bold relief the figures of some monks out in a boat at sea ...
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... monks of Fécamp in France and the monks of that day were not usually the men to take anything of inferior quality under their special protection . At the time of the Conquest , before Dover had risen into note , Winchilsea was one of ...
... monks of Fécamp in France and the monks of that day were not usually the men to take anything of inferior quality under their special protection . At the time of the Conquest , before Dover had risen into note , Winchilsea was one of ...
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... monks , in exchange , other lands , which those far- seeing and crafty gentlemen selected in a situation . not quite so likely to be destroyed by the ravages of the ocean as the ' Island of Cold Winds . ' The town , as we have said ...
... monks , in exchange , other lands , which those far- seeing and crafty gentlemen selected in a situation . not quite so likely to be destroyed by the ravages of the ocean as the ' Island of Cold Winds . ' The town , as we have said ...
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