History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationMacmillan, 1870 - 200 pages |
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... while it seemed needless to give any mere picturesque views of a building of which engravings and photographs are so common . Somerleaze , Wells , May 18th , 1870 . LIST OF OF BISHOPS . BISHOPS OF SOMERSETSHIRE OR WELLS PREFACE . xi.
... while it seemed needless to give any mere picturesque views of a building of which engravings and photographs are so common . Somerleaze , Wells , May 18th , 1870 . LIST OF OF BISHOPS . BISHOPS OF SOMERSETSHIRE OR WELLS PREFACE . xi.
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... give the story in interme- diate forms . I should strongly recommend those who are able to get at the books to compare all four accounts together . There cannot be a better example of the growth of a legend . This Bishop Gisa , who ...
... give the story in interme- diate forms . I should strongly recommend those who are able to get at the books to compare all four accounts together . There cannot be a better example of the growth of a legend . This Bishop Gisa , who ...
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... give their names to prebends in the church of Wells to this day . He also greatly increased the number of canons , but he did something more . Among the things which he complains of is that the canons of Wells before his time had no ...
... give their names to prebends in the church of Wells to this day . He also greatly increased the number of canons , but he did something more . Among the things which he complains of is that the canons of Wells before his time had no ...
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... give way to his younger brother Simon . ( 35 ) Bath was then , as now , a much larger town than Wells , and was a walled city , which Wells never has been . It was an old Roman town , which had been taken by the West - Saxons in 577 , a ...
... give way to his younger brother Simon . ( 35 ) Bath was then , as now , a much larger town than Wells , and was a walled city , which Wells never has been . It was an old Roman town , which had been taken by the West - Saxons in 577 , a ...
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... give of what Robert did at Wells . It is indeed said that the church and city of Bath were again destroyed by fire in 1135 , and that this made Robert's rebuilding neces- sary . But the phrase of being destroyed by fire is often used ...
... give of what Robert did at Wells . It is indeed said that the church and city of Bath were again destroyed by fire in 1135 , and that this made Robert's rebuilding neces- sary . But the phrase of being destroyed by fire is often used ...
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