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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... less . authority than in any other church , that the whole management of the cathedral church seems to have passed away from the Bishop into the hands of the Dean and Chapter . The independence of the Dean and Chapter , when it is ...
... less . authority than in any other church , that the whole management of the cathedral church seems to have passed away from the Bishop into the hands of the Dean and Chapter . The independence of the Dean and Chapter , when it is ...
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... less than when it looked across the Channel to the hills of Gwent and Morganwg , upon a foreign and hostile land . ( 10 ) The great natural features of the country were of course the same as they are now . The rocks of Cheddar and of ...
... less than when it looked across the Channel to the hills of Gwent and Morganwg , upon a foreign and hostile land . ( 10 ) The great natural features of the country were of course the same as they are now . The rocks of Cheddar and of ...
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... less central than Wells , being , as we all know , quite in a corner of the diocese . The Abbey of Bath was just then vacant by the death of the Abbot Ælfsige , an Englishman who had contrived to keep his office all through the reign of ...
... less central than Wells , being , as we all know , quite in a corner of the diocese . The Abbey of Bath was just then vacant by the death of the Abbot Ælfsige , an Englishman who had contrived to keep his office all through the reign of ...
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... less than the earlier one does , one is tempted to think that the earlier writer exag- gerated or spoke in a loose way , and that the Canon of Wells had some good reason for his correction . And this is the more to be noticed , because ...
... less than the earlier one does , one is tempted to think that the earlier writer exag- gerated or spoke in a loose way , and that the Canon of Wells had some good reason for his correction . And this is the more to be noticed , because ...
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... less im- portant are the functions of the officer second in rank , the Precentor . To his lot falls the immediate management of the cathedral services ; he is , as Bishop Godwin says , " the Precentor to govern the choir . " ( 14 ) Here ...
... less im- portant are the functions of the officer second in rank , the Precentor . To his lot falls the immediate management of the cathedral services ; he is , as Bishop Godwin says , " the Precentor to govern the choir . " ( 14 ) Here ...
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