A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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Page xvii
... Bishop Pecocke imprisoned at Thorney 1471. Death of Henry VI . 1473. St. Catharine's College founded 1475. Queens ' College completed by Elizabeth Woodville 1478. Morton , Bishop of Ely , attempts drainage of Fens 1483. Richard III ...
... Bishop Pecocke imprisoned at Thorney 1471. Death of Henry VI . 1473. St. Catharine's College founded 1475. Queens ' College completed by Elizabeth Woodville 1478. Morton , Bishop of Ely , attempts drainage of Fens 1483. Richard III ...
Page xviii
... Bishop of Ely , deposed 212 1560. Episcopal Manors confiscated by Elizabeth 167 1564. Elizabeth visits Cambridge 213 1570. Elizabethan Statutes 245 1573. Dr. Caius driven from Cambridge 210 1574. First plan of Cambridge 194 Wisbeach 212 ...
... Bishop of Ely , deposed 212 1560. Episcopal Manors confiscated by Elizabeth 167 1564. Elizabeth visits Cambridge 213 1570. Elizabethan Statutes 245 1573. Dr. Caius driven from Cambridge 210 1574. First plan of Cambridge 194 Wisbeach 212 ...
Page xix
... Bishop of Ely 1640. Ship - money riot at Melbourn 1642. Civil War begun . Associated Counties Wren imprisoned by Parliament 1643. Churches desecrated by Dowsing - Prayer - Book proscribed Covenant enforced PAGE 213 217 - 217 · 222 - 214 ...
... Bishop of Ely 1640. Ship - money riot at Melbourn 1642. Civil War begun . Associated Counties Wren imprisoned by Parliament 1643. Churches desecrated by Dowsing - Prayer - Book proscribed Covenant enforced PAGE 213 217 - 217 · 222 - 214 ...
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... Bishop Felix 42-46 Last struggle of heathenism - Penda - King Anna and his family - St . Etheldred - Foundation of Ely and Thorney- St. Wilfrid - Burial of St. Etheldred - Her rule of the Isle - " Families " and " hides " -Theodore of ...
... Bishop Felix 42-46 Last struggle of heathenism - Penda - King Anna and his family - St . Etheldred - Foundation of Ely and Thorney- St. Wilfrid - Burial of St. Etheldred - Her rule of the Isle - " Families " and " hides " -Theodore of ...
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... Ely - Prosperity of the abbey - Officers - Schools- Royal pupils 82-85 ... Bishop Nigel - Rise of existing Cambridge 113-116 CHAPTER VI . EARLY ENGLISH ... Bishop Longchamps - Interdicts - Queen Eleanor - Papal ban Contents . xxiii.
... Ely - Prosperity of the abbey - Officers - Schools- Royal pupils 82-85 ... Bishop Nigel - Rise of existing Cambridge 113-116 CHAPTER VI . EARLY ENGLISH ... Bishop Longchamps - Interdicts - Queen Eleanor - Papal ban Contents . xxiii.
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Page 191 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
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