An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3K. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... 251 • 289 • 312 XXXIX . THE MERRY MONARCH XL . THE LAST STUART . XLI . WILLIAM AND MARY . XLII . GOOD QUEEN ANNE XLIII . THE HANOVERIAN SUCCESSION . · 336 · 357 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK . Ὑπ ̓ αἰγιόχοιο Διός περικαλλέϊ φηγῷ.
... 251 • 289 • 312 XXXIX . THE MERRY MONARCH XL . THE LAST STUART . XLI . WILLIAM AND MARY . XLII . GOOD QUEEN ANNE XLIII . THE HANOVERIAN SUCCESSION . · 336 · 357 AN OLD SHROPSHIRE OAK . Ὑπ ̓ αἰγιόχοιο Διός περικαλλέϊ φηγῷ.
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... Mary's in Shrewsbury , at which all the quality of the Vale , and many of the common people , assisted . It seems to have been a general holiday , for the rectors of Hanwood and Pontesbury attended it , and marshalled their flocks ...
... Mary's in Shrewsbury , at which all the quality of the Vale , and many of the common people , assisted . It seems to have been a general holiday , for the rectors of Hanwood and Pontesbury attended it , and marshalled their flocks ...
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... Mary . ' There was a pleasant intimacy between the vicar of the Holy Cross and these two country rectors . He detailed to them the news of the town , and they told him the news of the country . They had been to what even then was called ...
... Mary . ' There was a pleasant intimacy between the vicar of the Holy Cross and these two country rectors . He detailed to them the news of the town , and they told him the news of the country . They had been to what even then was called ...
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... Mary - dedicated to Henry VIII . under the borrowed name of Thomas Matthews , whence called Matthews ' Bible— yet it was the same Bible which Cranmer managed to get printed in England , and to have , under Cromwell's injunction ...
... Mary - dedicated to Henry VIII . under the borrowed name of Thomas Matthews , whence called Matthews ' Bible— yet it was the same Bible which Cranmer managed to get printed in England , and to have , under Cromwell's injunction ...
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... Mary's and at St. Chad's , where they had friends . Evidently , for some years , the Abbey Parlour was not so open as it had been . Agnovit longe gemitum præsaga mali mens . Not , however , that the doors were closed , for at this time ...
... Mary's and at St. Chad's , where they had friends . Evidently , for some years , the Abbey Parlour was not so open as it had been . Agnovit longe gemitum præsaga mali mens . Not , however , that the doors were closed , for at this time ...
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