Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 320
perpendicular, which came to fullmaturity in the days of Henry VII., and whichis the latest development of purely Gothic archi-tecture in England. Behind are the cloisters andcanons houses ; in front of it the curious bright and over each stall hangs the banner and the swordof the owner. So it has… … little houses of the Poor Knights. Everythingexists still as it was founded then. The canonsare church dignitaries, however, nowadays, and thePoor Knights retired officers; and the Chapel ofthe Order of the Garter is the state chapel of theroyal family, where all great ceremonials, marriages,and…
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