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Cloister life in the days of Coeur de Lion (1893)

Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 122

An illustration from Cloister life in the days of Coeur de Lion, 1893, leaf 122
rdedNestas son prayed. It was the loved oratory for fourhundred years of that long and noble line which sprang fromHenrys son and royally descended Fitz-Hamons heiress. Itis also the great tomb in which this historic race is sleepingtheir last unbroken sleep. It was too the abbey church… … Shrine and Loculus in which the mutilated remains of Hugh le Desjfrenser the younger were deposited. Under our feet moulders the hallowed dust of chivalrousmen whose style and title have been with us as householdwords since our school-boy days. Here is the stone whichcovers the coffin of one who…

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