Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1812-1871, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London, G. Bell and Sons · leaf 288
requentlydescribed as burnt by the same marauders.All that is necessarily meant to be conveyed insuch passages is that whatever was combus-tible in these buildings, such as the floors, roofs,etc., was burnt, just as in the present day we speak of houses as liable to be burnt, the walls of which are… … Doorway of St. Finans Oratory. 140 Pagan Forts and It may be suggested also that those passages so often quoted from Bede andWilliam of Malmesbury, in which it is said that most of the oratories of the Scotic saintswere formed of wattles of wood and clay, may be merely applicable to the erections…
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