A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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... minster 78-82 Canute first King of England - Earlier royal titles - His favour for Ely - Prosperity of the abbey - Officers - Schools- Royal pupils 82-85 Alfred the Etheling - Rebuilding and expansion of Cambridge -St . Benet's 86-87 ...
... minster 78-82 Canute first King of England - Earlier royal titles - His favour for Ely - Prosperity of the abbey - Officers - Schools- Royal pupils 82-85 Alfred the Etheling - Rebuilding and expansion of Cambridge -St . Benet's 86-87 ...
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... minster of Ely . Renouncing the pomps of Northumbrian royalty , Etheldred returned to the scenes of her early life , and there , within sight of her native Exning uplands , on the Girvian isle amid the fens which had been the seat of ...
... minster of Ely . Renouncing the pomps of Northumbrian royalty , Etheldred returned to the scenes of her early life , and there , within sight of her native Exning uplands , on the Girvian isle amid the fens which had been the seat of ...
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... Minster , that it be under Rome alone : and my will it is that all we who may not go to Rome visit St. Peter here . ' " While thus he spake , the Abbot prayed of him that he would give him whatsoever he should ask . And the King granted ...
... Minster , that it be under Rome alone : and my will it is that all we who may not go to Rome visit St. Peter here . ' " While thus he spake , the Abbot prayed of him that he would give him whatsoever he should ask . And the King granted ...
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... minster of Ely was doubtless of the same Romanesque style that we see in the contemporary churches set up by Benedict Biscop at Jarrow and Wearmouth . The cost was mainly borne by Etheldred's brother Adwulf , now seated upon their ...
... minster of Ely was doubtless of the same Romanesque style that we see in the contemporary churches set up by Benedict Biscop at Jarrow and Wearmouth . The cost was mainly borne by Etheldred's brother Adwulf , now seated upon their ...
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... minster , for Bede calls it " a country of six hundred families . " Now , the word " family " was in his day strictly a measure of land , a signification which it probably acquired from the fact that a certain . recognised amount of ...
... minster , for Bede calls it " a country of six hundred families . " Now , the word " family " was in his day strictly a measure of land , a signification which it probably acquired from the fact that a certain . recognised amount of ...
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