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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 146

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spenser, whosleeps so close beside them. Even in that age of splendidvalour, De Brien was known as the bravest of the brave.History tells how on the field of battle the great English kingdubbed him knight-banneret, and chose him one of the firstknights of the proud Order of the Garter. But his… … i,^ ■■• srcak« ^^a^ss^*--: v-. «#■ 7o*k£ of Sir Guv de Brien. alone, and the Lady of Tewkesbury, his wife, moulders away,a few yards distant, by the side of Hugo Tertius, her firsthusband. Across the choir, in a once gorgeous chauntry, lies anotherDespenser. His effigy, quaintly kneeling amidst the…

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