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... Norman Pillar ( A.D. 1060 ) Early Norman Capitals , with later Norman Sculpture 132 Chapel of the Pyx in its present state ( 1859 ) , part of the Sub- structure of 1060 133 Window of the Dormitory 134 Doorway in the Vaults under the ...
... Norman Pillar ( A.D. 1060 ) Early Norman Capitals , with later Norman Sculpture 132 Chapel of the Pyx in its present state ( 1859 ) , part of the Sub- structure of 1060 133 Window of the Dormitory 134 Doorway in the Vaults under the ...
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... Normans settled here by the King . The custom of bearing surnames , that is , names which are used in genealogical succession from father to son , like most other customs , probably made its way by degrees ; but I believe there is no ...
... Normans settled here by the King . The custom of bearing surnames , that is , names which are used in genealogical succession from father to son , like most other customs , probably made its way by degrees ; but I believe there is no ...
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... Norman Pillar ( A.D. 1060 ) 131 Early Norman Capitals , with later Norman Sculpture 132 Chapel of the Pyx in its present state ( 1859 ) , part of the Sub- structure of 1060 133 • Window of the Dormitory 134 Doorway in the Vaults under ...
... Norman Pillar ( A.D. 1060 ) 131 Early Norman Capitals , with later Norman Sculpture 132 Chapel of the Pyx in its present state ( 1859 ) , part of the Sub- structure of 1060 133 • Window of the Dormitory 134 Doorway in the Vaults under ...
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... Normans settled here by the King . The custom of bearing surnames , that is , names which are used in genealogical succession from father to son , like most other customs , probably made its way by degrees ; but I believe there is no ...
... Normans settled here by the King . The custom of bearing surnames , that is , names which are used in genealogical succession from father to son , like most other customs , probably made its way by degrees ; but I believe there is no ...
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... Norman , Breton , and Poitevin nobles , he landed in Bretagne in May , 1230 , and remained there until October , losing his troops by sickness , and wasting , as Matthew of Westminster says , an incalculable amount of treasure " on his ...
... Norman , Breton , and Poitevin nobles , he landed in Bretagne in May , 1230 , and remained there until October , losing his troops by sickness , and wasting , as Matthew of Westminster says , an incalculable amount of treasure " on his ...
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Page 55 - ... have felt that that forthcoming navigable season of 1847 would see their ships pass over so short an intervening space ! It was ruled otherwise. Within a month after Lieutenant Gore placed the record on Point Victory, the much-loved leader of the expedition, Sir John Franklin, was dead ; and the following spring found Captain Crozier, upon whom the command had devolved, at King William's Land endeavouring to save his starving men, 105 souls in all, from a terrible death by retreating to the Hudson...
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Page 55 - June, 1847; and the total loss by deaths in the expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men. (Signed) James Fitzjames, Captain HMS Erebus. (Signed) FRM Crozier, Captain and Senior Officer. and start (on) to-morrow, 26th, for Back's Fish River.
Page 326 - The first was a harder work, it having been a foolish custom of great antiquity, that one of the seniors in the evening called the freshmen (which are such as came since that time twelvemonth) to the fire, and made them hold out their chin, and they with the nail of their right thumb, left long for that purpose, grate off all the skin from the lip to the chin, and then cause them to drink a beerglass of -water and salt.
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