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Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 46

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the interdict and the civil war :- In Jonis time, as I undirstond,Was interdited alle Engelond.He was fulle wrothe and gryme,For prestis wuld not singe bifor him.* * * * In his time was a grete dirthe, Xij. pens an halfe-peny lofe was wurthe. Thanne he made a parlement, And swere in angre verament… … The elegant reading desk at the end of the present article, was, about theyear 1750, dragged out of the deep part of the lake at Newstead, and isnow preserved in the collegiate church at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, .having been purchased by Sir Richard Kaye, in 1778, and presented by hiswidow to…

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