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... Town Members . Reading Room open from Ten to half - past Six . Catalogue , 1875 , price 168 .; to Members , 128. Supplement ( 1875-90 ) , price 58 .; to Members , 48. Prospectuses on application . ROBERT HARRISON , Secretary and ...
... Town Members . Reading Room open from Ten to half - past Six . Catalogue , 1875 , price 168 .; to Members , 128. Supplement ( 1875-90 ) , price 58 .; to Members , 48. Prospectuses on application . ROBERT HARRISON , Secretary and ...
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... town of Kirkwall - Kirkuivag , i , e . , the Bay of the Kirk - took its name from a church that has now disappeared . The Northmen are said to have destroyed , on their arrival , all the pre- vious inhabitants of the islands ; hence the ...
... town of Kirkwall - Kirkuivag , i , e . , the Bay of the Kirk - took its name from a church that has now disappeared . The Northmen are said to have destroyed , on their arrival , all the pre- vious inhabitants of the islands ; hence the ...
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... town in a few lines of verse or prose . Is not fat King Henry , the devourer of churches and monasteries , buried in the following nursery jingle , which I remember to have heard more than fifty years ago ? - " Eight , nine , ten , A ...
... town in a few lines of verse or prose . Is not fat King Henry , the devourer of churches and monasteries , buried in the following nursery jingle , which I remember to have heard more than fifty years ago ? - " Eight , nine , ten , A ...
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... town of Welshpool . W. W. THE GLASTONBURY THORN ( 6th S. vi . 513 ; vii . 217 , 258 ) .- Several trees which are descended by cuttings from the Holy Thorn still exist in and about Glastonbury . One of them , of somewhat scanty and ...
... town of Welshpool . W. W. THE GLASTONBURY THORN ( 6th S. vi . 513 ; vii . 217 , 258 ) .- Several trees which are descended by cuttings from the Holy Thorn still exist in and about Glastonbury . One of them , of somewhat scanty and ...
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... town at that time , but do not find the information I want in any local his- tory . Is there a good second - hand bookseller living in Newcastle at the present time ? I can get no particulars of any from booksellers in London . STRIX ...
... town at that time , but do not find the information I want in any local his- tory . Is there a good second - hand bookseller living in Newcastle at the present time ? I can get no particulars of any from booksellers in London . STRIX ...
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