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... Buildings 60 68 The Dormitory ( looking South ) A section of the Vaulted Building ( looking East ) Doorway in the Groined Passage 68 68 68 Norman Capital ... St. Nicholas Chapel in 1889 69 73 Interior of St. Nicholas Chapel before the ...
... Buildings 60 68 The Dormitory ( looking South ) A section of the Vaulted Building ( looking East ) Doorway in the Groined Passage 68 68 68 Norman Capital ... St. Nicholas Chapel in 1889 69 73 Interior of St. Nicholas Chapel before the ...
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... building or the break - up of historic estates , and also alterations in the ownership of estates through sale or through the extinction of their owners ' families . " As instances of ancient Essex houses which had died out or parted ...
... building or the break - up of historic estates , and also alterations in the ownership of estates through sale or through the extinction of their owners ' families . " As instances of ancient Essex houses which had died out or parted ...
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... build upon it so stately a house within two or three years of its acquisition . It will probably be admitted that his official income could not have enabled him to do this and that , as I have suggested , 1 Our former Hon . Sec . , Mr ...
... build upon it so stately a house within two or three years of its acquisition . It will probably be admitted that his official income could not have enabled him to do this and that , as I have suggested , 1 Our former Hon . Sec . , Mr ...
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... build " Moulsham Hall " very beautifully , so as it was then accounted the greatest esquire's building within the county of Essex . " It is also there stated to have been " much bettered , 1 A Galleywood ' Hall is shown in Chapman ...
... build " Moulsham Hall " very beautifully , so as it was then accounted the greatest esquire's building within the county of Essex . " It is also there stated to have been " much bettered , 1 A Galleywood ' Hall is shown in Chapman ...
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... building operations should reveal a trace of its foundations . Morant speaks of " several stones , with brasses thereon , " having been removed from it . Possibly this chapel served as a chapel - of - ease for Moulsham , owing to its ...
... building operations should reveal a trace of its foundations . Morant speaks of " several stones , with brasses thereon , " having been removed from it . Possibly this chapel served as a chapel - of - ease for Moulsham , owing to its ...
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Page 25 - Tout passe. — L'art robuste Seul a 1'e'ternite. Le buste Survit a la cite', Et la me'daille austere Que trouve un laboureur Sous terre Revele un empereur.
Page 80 - Thurbearn. First Thurbearn, and then Hamo, besides a house, had a " curia," a rare word whose use I do not fully understand. And this " curia " seems, I know not on what ground, to be identified with an existing house which keeps portions of Romanesque date. The first entry of all is also one of a good deal of interest, as marking the subdivision of property in Old-English times. The houses and other property of Godric — one of the many bearers of one of the commonest of English names — had been...
Page 63 - ... substance fastened with a silken lace ; within this were found whole bones and many pieces of small bones wrapped up in fine silk of fresh colour, which the Abbot took for the relics of some saint, and laid up in his vestiary ; but more probably it was a Eoman urn.
Page 96 - Lawrence, in the sixth year of the reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest...