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... interesting to those who delight to seek out the motives of human action in the lives of master- minds , their rise and fall ! In the Histories of Great Families , which are the nooks and byeways of History proper , are to be found ...
... interesting to those who delight to seek out the motives of human action in the lives of master- minds , their rise and fall ! In the Histories of Great Families , which are the nooks and byeways of History proper , are to be found ...
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... Interesting Documents , 342 . THE LADY ALICE LISLE . Miles Court , 343 ; ' The Merciful Assize , ' 344 ; Trial of Lady Alice Lisle , 344-347 ; ' Kirke's Lambs , ' 346 ; Chief Justice Jeffreys , 347 ; The Sentence and Execution , 347 ...
... Interesting Documents , 342 . THE LADY ALICE LISLE . Miles Court , 343 ; ' The Merciful Assize , ' 344 ; Trial of Lady Alice Lisle , 344-347 ; ' Kirke's Lambs , ' 346 ; Chief Justice Jeffreys , 347 ; The Sentence and Execution , 347 ...
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... interesting than the Castle of Dunvallo . In the year 1232 , Ela , only child of William Earl of Salisbury , and sole heiress of all her father's vast landed possessions in Wiltshire , laid the foundation of this religious house in her ...
... interesting than the Castle of Dunvallo . In the year 1232 , Ela , only child of William Earl of Salisbury , and sole heiress of all her father's vast landed possessions in Wiltshire , laid the foundation of this religious house in her ...
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... interesting scene in which the pious Ela was an active partaker with him . This was no less than the cere- mony of founding the present beautiful Cathedral of Salis- bury , the fourth stone of which was laid by the Earl , and the fifth ...
... interesting scene in which the pious Ela was an active partaker with him . This was no less than the cere- mony of founding the present beautiful Cathedral of Salis- bury , the fourth stone of which was laid by the Earl , and the fifth ...
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... interesting recollections of an inmate of the abbey , Lady Shrewsbury , a strict Catholic , eighty years of age , who had been in her youth a great beauty . She had frequently friends staying here ; the Blounts , Cliffords , and Hydes ...
... interesting recollections of an inmate of the abbey , Lady Shrewsbury , a strict Catholic , eighty years of age , who had been in her youth a great beauty . She had frequently friends staying here ; the Blounts , Cliffords , and Hydes ...
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