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... took place on the small island , and in the open air - a precaution insisted upon by the men of Kent , from the fear that the foreign strangers might make use of certain charms or spells . The prince , attended by his haughty followers ...
... took place on the small island , and in the open air - a precaution insisted upon by the men of Kent , from the fear that the foreign strangers might make use of certain charms or spells . The prince , attended by his haughty followers ...
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Reinhold Pauli. haughty followers , all of whom were armed , took his seat beneath an ancient oak , where he awaited the approach of the monks , who advanced towards him , preceded by two of their number bearing aloft a silver cross and ...
Reinhold Pauli. haughty followers , all of whom were armed , took his seat beneath an ancient oak , where he awaited the approach of the monks , who advanced towards him , preceded by two of their number bearing aloft a silver cross and ...
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... took part in these transac- tions , and we have at least twenty descriptions of Becket's life and passion , which were written within the first fifty years after the martyrdom . It was not long before the credulous generation of those ...
... took part in these transac- tions , and we have at least twenty descriptions of Becket's life and passion , which were written within the first fifty years after the martyrdom . It was not long before the credulous generation of those ...
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... took place in the presence of the young King Henry III . attended by a brilliant court and surrounded by a crowd of native and foreign prelates . The celebrity which in a short time was attached to the name of the saint , not only among ...
... took place in the presence of the young King Henry III . attended by a brilliant court and surrounded by a crowd of native and foreign prelates . The celebrity which in a short time was attached to the name of the saint , not only among ...
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... took their places in the Upper House , and con- tinued to sit as peers of the realm until the time of the reformation . Thus the monastic houses became on the one hand important agents in the mechanism of the secular State , whilst on ...
... took their places in the Upper House , and con- tinued to sit as peers of the realm until the time of the reformation . Thus the monastic houses became on the one hand important agents in the mechanism of the secular State , whilst on ...
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