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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 277

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ll at vari-ance because the townsmen took privilege to use the sacra-ment of Baptism in the chapel of All Hallows. Uponthis Walter Gallow, a stout butcher living in Sherborne,defaced clean the font stone; and after, the variancegrowing to a plain sedition, the townsmen by the helpof the Earl of… … SHERBORNE ABBEY: CHOIR AND EAST WINDOW SHERBORNE what the townsmen used. This portion chancing at thattime to be thatched, the roof was set on fire, and con-sequently the whole church, and the lead and bellsmelted. The Lady chapel and the porch alone escaped,and what is called the red stain of fire…

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