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Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes - Page 37
by Walter Shaw Sparrow - 1908 - 347 pages
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History of the Anglo-Saxons

Francis Palgrave - Anglo-Saxons - 1831 - 450 pages
...choir, with great honour and solemnity, many Norman nobles assisting in the requiem. Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...anchorite, who inhabited a cell near the Abbey of St. John at Chester, where Edgar celebrated his triumph. This recluse, deeply scarred, and blinded,...
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History of England: Anglo-Saxon period, Volume 1

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1831 - 450 pages
...with great honour and solemnity, many Norman nobles assisting in the requiem. . i Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...anchorite, who inhabited a cell near the Abbey of St. John at Chester, where Edgar celebrated his triumph. This recluse, deeply scarred, and blinded...
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

Women - 1831 - 372 pages
...presumed discovery by his mistress, Editha, and subsequent interment in Waltham Abbey. " Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...anchorite, who inhabited a cell near the Abbey of St John, at Chester, where Edgar celebrated his triumph. This recluse, deeply scaned, and bunded in...
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The North American Review, Volume 35

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1832 - 614 pages
...battle. 'Years afterwards,' \ve are told by one of the most curiously learned of English scholars, ' when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...silence by the sullen tolling of the curfew,' there was an ancient anchorite, maimed, and scarred, and blind of an eye, who led a life of penitence and seclusion...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 9

English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...fonnd — but at length a mutilated corpse was selected and buried in Waltham Abbey. . ' Years after, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...the Battle of Hastings had become a tale of sorrow, there was a decrepid anchorite, who inhabited a cell near the Abbey of St. John, Chester. This rocluse,...
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Domestic Life in England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With ...

Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - Cooking, English - 1835 - 476 pages
...government even to the very firesides of our forefathers. Thus, we read of the battle of Hastings becoming a tale of sorrow, which old men narrated by the light of the embers, until warned to silence by the sudden tolling of the curfew. Thomson has inimitably described the tyranny of the custom: The shivering...
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The History of the Hundred of Wirral: With a Sketch of the City and County ...

William Williams Mortimer - Cheshire (England) - 1847 - 540 pages
...escaped with his life. Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English, when the battle of Hastings had become a tale of sorrow,...a decrepit anchorite who inhabited a cell near the church of St. John at Chester. Here, deeply scarred and blind of his left eye, he lived in strict penitence...
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The History of the Hundred of Wirral: With a Sketch of the City and County ...

William Williams Mortimer - Cheshire (England) - 1847 - 530 pages
...escaped with his life. Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English, when the battle of Hastings had become a tale of sorrow,...until warned to silence by the sullen tolling of the rihrfew, there was a decrepit anchorite who inhabited a cell near the church of St. John at Chester....
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Things not generally known. Popular errors explained and illustrated

John Timbs - 1858 - 296 pages
...government, even to the very firesides of our forefathers. Thus, we read of the Battle of Hastings becoming a tale of sorrow, which old men narrated by the light of the embers until warned to silence by the tolling of the curfew. Thomson, in his Seasons, countenances this opinion of the tyranny of the custom...
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The History of Normandy and of England: Richard-Sans-Peur. Richard Le-Bon ...

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1864 - 722 pages
...with great honour and solemnity, many Norman nobles assisting in the requiem. § 16. Years afterwards, when the Norman yoke pressed heavily upon the English,...anchorite, who inhabited a cell near the Abbey of St. John at Chester, where Edgar celebrated his triumph. This recluse, deeply scarred, and blinded...
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