Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society, Volumes 1-16The Society, 1900 The transactions include the society's proceedings. No proceedings are included in n. s. v. 70 (1970). |
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Page 180 - ... cuts. I add, that this history of the church was of such value and esteem for the use of it to Christian readers, and the service of our religion reformed, that it was in the days of queen Elizabeth enjoined to be set up in some convenient place in all the parish-churches, together with the Bible, and Bishop Jewel's Defence of the Apology of the Church of England ; to be read at all suitable times by the people before or after service.
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