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... wife , as being a Christian , free exercise of her religion , and he now consented to listen to Augustine and his companions . The meeting took place in the Isle of Thanet , and , by Æthelbert's wish , in the open air , because spells ...
... wife , as being a Christian , free exercise of her religion , and he now consented to listen to Augustine and his companions . The meeting took place in the Isle of Thanet , and , by Æthelbert's wish , in the open air , because spells ...
Page 13
... wife . One day the woman having set some cakes to bake at the fire by which Alfred was sitting mending his bow and arrows , returned to find her cakes burning in the sight of the unconscious King , whose mind was full of more serious ...
... wife . One day the woman having set some cakes to bake at the fire by which Alfred was sitting mending his bow and arrows , returned to find her cakes burning in the sight of the unconscious King , whose mind was full of more serious ...
Page 15
... wives . Further , they tried to get all the cathedral and other great churches into the hands of monks , whom they liked better than secular clergymen , married or unmarried . The quarrel ran high , and while Dunstan stood at the head ...
... wives . Further , they tried to get all the cathedral and other great churches into the hands of monks , whom they liked better than secular clergymen , married or unmarried . The quarrel ran high , and while Dunstan stood at the head ...
Page 17
... wives . Further , they tried to get all the cathedral and other great churches into the hands of monks , whom they liked better than secular clergymen , married or unmarried . The quarrel ran high , and while Dunstan stood at the head ...
... wives . Further , they tried to get all the cathedral and other great churches into the hands of monks , whom they liked better than secular clergymen , married or unmarried . The quarrel ran high , and while Dunstan stood at the head ...
Page 18
... wife Elfgifu ( in Latin Elgiva ) was related to him within the very numerous degrees then forbidden by the ecclesiastical law of marriage , and Dunstan's party therefore refused to consider her as the King's wife . Edwy , on his part ...
... wife Elfgifu ( in Latin Elgiva ) was related to him within the very numerous degrees then forbidden by the ecclesiastical law of marriage , and Dunstan's party therefore refused to consider her as the King's wife . Edwy , on his part ...
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