The Life and Times of Ralph Allen of Prior Park, Bath, Introduced by a Short Account of Lyncombe and Widcombe, with Notices of His Contemporaries, Including Bishop Warburton, Bennet of Widcombe House, Beau Nash, Etc |
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... earliest Saxon down to the Norman period , but in later times subdivided into the parishes of Lyncombe and Widcombe - we have endeavoured to supply merely such information as the general reader would care to possess without much trouble ...
... earliest Saxon down to the Norman period , but in later times subdivided into the parishes of Lyncombe and Widcombe - we have endeavoured to supply merely such information as the general reader would care to possess without much trouble ...
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... earliest historic inhabitants of Britain , are supposed to have been Celts , once , no doubt , the dominant race in Europe , who migrated from Gaul several centuries previous to the Christian For a considerable time they seem to have ...
... earliest historic inhabitants of Britain , are supposed to have been Celts , once , no doubt , the dominant race in Europe , who migrated from Gaul several centuries previous to the Christian For a considerable time they seem to have ...
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... early times , and the part that that great Roman work played in Bath in relation to the Norman city and vast Abbey raised by de Villula . Now , interesting as are these records , it must be observed that later history reveals the fact ...
... early times , and the part that that great Roman work played in Bath in relation to the Norman city and vast Abbey raised by de Villula . Now , interesting as are these records , it must be observed that later history reveals the fact ...
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... early civilisation , but which , in a measure , are to this day evidences of the scientific skill and the industry of the Romans . 1 Itin . Cur . , vol . i , p . 76 . THE SAXON PERIOD . The British period after the departure 6 ...
... early civilisation , but which , in a measure , are to this day evidences of the scientific skill and the industry of the Romans . 1 Itin . Cur . , vol . i , p . 76 . THE SAXON PERIOD . The British period after the departure 6 ...
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... early Saxon occupation . The efforts of Arthur and successive chief- tains , whose valour and achievements , it may be , pass under his name , for a time kept the Saxon " hordes from the shores of the Baltic " in check , but only for a ...
... early Saxon occupation . The efforts of Arthur and successive chief- tains , whose valour and achievements , it may be , pass under his name , for a time kept the Saxon " hordes from the shores of the Baltic " in check , but only for a ...
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