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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 193

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ern country owe sodeep a debt of gratitude. From this night those who lovethe glorious Cathedral rebuilt by Serlo, Lanfrancs friend, thechaplain of William the Conqueror, will be conscious ofanother sacred treasure enshrined within the old wallsof their loved minster. They will often reverently… … beneath the carved canopy, beneath , , u ^ Mt; 0»r & the sculptured effigy, rests the hallowed dust of Osric, the Northumbrian king, who, after his stormy life, chose the abbey by the Severn as his last earthly home nearly twelve hundred years ago. As with the little group of reverent searchers…

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