Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... parish churches helped to house such treasures : small barnlike buildings , with primitive rounded arches , high walls and narrow windows and bell - towers crowned with weather - cocks- an English invention . A few survive , like the ...
... parish churches helped to house such treasures : small barnlike buildings , with primitive rounded arches , high walls and narrow windows and bell - towers crowned with weather - cocks- an English invention . A few survive , like the ...
Page 383
... parish , administer- ing the Christian sacraments of baptism , confirmation , communion , marriage , penance and extreme unction , and entitled by law to an annual tenth or tithe of the produce of every parishioner . The system dated ...
... parish , administer- ing the Christian sacraments of baptism , confirmation , communion , marriage , penance and extreme unction , and entitled by law to an annual tenth or tithe of the produce of every parishioner . The system dated ...
Page 384
... parish , was allowed to employ a resident vicar or ' perpetual curate ' while he completed his education at the Church's universities of Oxford or Cambridge or performed some remunerative ecclesiastical function elsewhere . Usually the ...
... parish , was allowed to employ a resident vicar or ' perpetual curate ' while he completed his education at the Church's universities of Oxford or Cambridge or performed some remunerative ecclesiastical function elsewhere . Usually the ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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