Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 706
beforebeing set in an iVrbour on a Holy Da\ she was ap-parently carried on the shoulders of four men or deacons : ^assuredly these parochial deacons were personages of localimportance, and they may possibly account for the place-name Maydeacon House which occurs at Patrixbourne,Kent, in conjunction… … Fig. 42G.—-Cretau. From Barthelemy. carrying by four deacons was not merely an idle villagesport for it formed part of the ecclesiastical functions atthe Vatican. An English traveller of some centuries agospeaking of the Pope and his attendant ceremonial, statesthat the representative of Peter was…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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