A General History of the County of Norfolk: Intended to Convey All the Information of a Norfolk Tour, with the More Extended Details of Antiquarian, Statistical, Pictorial, Architectural, and Miscellaneous Information; Including Biographical Notices, Original and Selected, Volume 2John Chambers J. Stacy, 1829 - Norfolk (England) |
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... rector of Castle Rising and Lynn St. Edmund , died in 1799. He was the author of one hundred and twenty popular sermons , London , 1789 , 4 vols . 8vo . Rev. ELISHA SMITH , M. A. , lecturer of Wisbeach , rector of Sid St. Giles and ...
... rector of Castle Rising and Lynn St. Edmund , died in 1799. He was the author of one hundred and twenty popular sermons , London , 1789 , 4 vols . 8vo . Rev. ELISHA SMITH , M. A. , lecturer of Wisbeach , rector of Sid St. Giles and ...
Page 396
... rector of this place and master of the free grammar school of Lynn . He was a man of learning and a polite scholar . Masters , in his " Hist . of Corp. Christ . Coll . , Cambridge , " acknowledges the assistance which he received from ...
... rector of this place and master of the free grammar school of Lynn . He was a man of learning and a polite scholar . Masters , in his " Hist . of Corp. Christ . Coll . , Cambridge , " acknowledges the assistance which he received from ...
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... rector set up against the north wall of the chancel , two tables , one in memory of the Spanish Invasion in 1588 ; the other of the Popish Gunpowder Plot , 1605. This last was defaced in the reign of James II . Under the first was ...
... rector set up against the north wall of the chancel , two tables , one in memory of the Spanish Invasion in 1588 ; the other of the Popish Gunpowder Plot , 1605. This last was defaced in the reign of James II . Under the first was ...
Page 401
... rector of this place , published a sermon preached at the episcopal visitation of King's Lynn , 1686 , " The Necessity of Obedience to spiritual Governors asserted . " GRIMSTON . Thirty - five miles . St. Botolph . P. 918 . Written in ...
... rector of this place , published a sermon preached at the episcopal visitation of King's Lynn , 1686 , " The Necessity of Obedience to spiritual Governors asserted . " GRIMSTON . Thirty - five miles . St. Botolph . P. 918 . Written in ...
Page 402
... rector , ( as 17 James I. Act 5 , ) it was ordered , " that diligent search should be made after those who had been guilty of a most flagrant crime and act , in throwing down the tomb of sir Benedict Breccles , knight , buried in the ...
... rector , ( as 17 James I. Act 5 , ) it was ordered , " that diligent search should be made after those who had been guilty of a most flagrant crime and act , in throwing down the tomb of sir Benedict Breccles , knight , buried in the ...
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