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A companion to the fourth edition of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1846)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 46

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in 1088, and the first stone of a new church laid by Robert, bishop ofHereford, in the following year. 1059. In this year, on the 16th of the Kalends of Novem-ber, the steeple of Burgh (Peterborough) was consecrated.Sax. Chron. [No part of the present building is of this age.] 1060. About this date… … This inscription is to be read thus :— Orm Gamal suna bohte sanctus Gregorius minster Sonne hit wes sel to-brocan -3 to-falan -] he hit let macan newan from grunde XPE t sanctus Gre-gorius in Eadward dagum cining, in Tosti dagum eorl. Which may be translated, Orm son of Gamal bought St. Gregorys…

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