The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Volume 22A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county. |
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The Celtic monks were unwilling to change their immemorial customs , and being then given their choice either to conform or to depart , they adopted the latter course , leaving Wilfrid , backed by Alchfrid , master of the situation .
The Celtic monks were unwilling to change their immemorial customs , and being then given their choice either to conform or to depart , they adopted the latter course , leaving Wilfrid , backed by Alchfrid , master of the situation .
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We only know what this church was from the glowing descriptions given by Wilfrid's biographers . None of it now remains to be seen , unless the crypt commonly attributed to Wilfrid was really made by him , and that it was is highly ...
We only know what this church was from the glowing descriptions given by Wilfrid's biographers . None of it now remains to be seen , unless the crypt commonly attributed to Wilfrid was really made by him , and that it was is highly ...
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... that though he should not be restored to York , yet Ripon and Hexham should be given up to him.9 There had been a time when he would not have acquiesced in this compromise , but age and trouble had at last robbed him of his old fire ...
... that though he should not be restored to York , yet Ripon and Hexham should be given up to him.9 There had been a time when he would not have acquiesced in this compromise , but age and trouble had at last robbed him of his old fire ...
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Alms were not properly distributed , though some had been given to blind priests . A long dispute followed , ending in John of Bridlington being confirmed in his mastership , although he was only in minor orders .
Alms were not properly distributed , though some had been given to blind priests . A long dispute followed , ending in John of Bridlington being confirmed in his mastership , although he was only in minor orders .
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All parishes were originally rectories , but the principal endowments and tithes of many of them were given to monasteries , and the abbots and convents appointed vicars to do the work that had been done by rectors .
All parishes were originally rectories , but the principal endowments and tithes of many of them were given to monasteries , and the abbots and convents appointed vicars to do the work that had been done by rectors .
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Page 251 - Wilferth built. And as the king went homewards, then the army of York overtook him : the rear of the king's forces was at Chesterford ; and there they made great slaughter. Then was the king so wroth that he would have marched his forces in again and wholly destroyed the land. When the North-humbrian witan understood that, then forsook they Hyryc, and made compensation for the deed with king Eadred.
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