English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... Abbot Herluin , one of a noble Danish family , who had been bred to arms , had left the world , and was in much need of a good scholar in his abbey . To Bec , therefore , Lanfranc retired as a monk ; in three years he became prior there ...
... Abbot Herluin , one of a noble Danish family , who had been bred to arms , had left the world , and was in much need of a good scholar in his abbey . To Bec , therefore , Lanfranc retired as a monk ; in three years he became prior there ...
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... abbot's , nor a priest's , but robbed monks and clerks , and every man another who anywhere could . If two or three men came riding to a town , all the township fled before them , imagining them to be robbers . The bishops and clergy ...
... abbot's , nor a priest's , but robbed monks and clerks , and every man another who anywhere could . If two or three men came riding to a town , all the township fled before them , imagining them to be robbers . The bishops and clergy ...
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... Abbot of St. Disibod in the diocese of Treves , continued the Chronicle of Marianus Scotus to the year 1200. With ... Abbot Gerbert , and being 1075 made by King William of the deposed Ulfketel . A Ingulf . recalled to England , was in ...
... Abbot of St. Disibod in the diocese of Treves , continued the Chronicle of Marianus Scotus to the year 1200. With ... Abbot Gerbert , and being 1075 made by King William of the deposed Ulfketel . A Ingulf . recalled to England , was in ...
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... Abbot Vitalis , between the years 1076 and 1082 , a short legendary history of Westminster Abbey . Sulcard . It occupies only six leaves of MS . * He was a monk of Westminster , who says that he saw the old mon- astery before it was ...
... Abbot Vitalis , between the years 1076 and 1082 , a short legendary history of Westminster Abbey . Sulcard . It occupies only six leaves of MS . * He was a monk of Westminster , who says that he saw the old mon- astery before it was ...
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... Abbot Mainier . Forty years afterwards , still in the same religious home , he wrote in his Chronicle : - " Then being in my eleventh year , I was separated from my father , for the love of God , and sent , a young exile , from England ...
... Abbot Mainier . Forty years afterwards , still in the same religious home , he wrote in his Chronicle : - " Then being in my eleventh year , I was separated from my father , for the love of God , and sent , a young exile , from England ...
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