Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs, Volume 2Columbia University Press, 1912 - 364 pages |
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... marriages . The impropriation22 of the benefices opened a wide field . for this species of preying upon Church lands . It was customary for a lay patron to compound with a clergyman for a certain portion of the revenue of the benefice ...
... marriages . The impropriation22 of the benefices opened a wide field . for this species of preying upon Church lands . It was customary for a lay patron to compound with a clergyman for a certain portion of the revenue of the benefice ...
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... marriage with the Queen , and whose habits of life were dissolute , became a leader of those violently opposed to ... married his daughter Anne to the Catholic Clifford , Earl of Cumberland . Grin- dal , whom Archbishop Parker considered ...
... marriage with the Queen , and whose habits of life were dissolute , became a leader of those violently opposed to ... married his daughter Anne to the Catholic Clifford , Earl of Cumberland . Grin- dal , whom Archbishop Parker considered ...
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... marriage , burial , baptism , purification of women , confirmation , and many others , which were inveighed against with a bitterness which now seems entirely dispro- portionate to their importance.84 In these treatises , and in all the ...
... marriage , burial , baptism , purification of women , confirmation , and many others , which were inveighed against with a bitterness which now seems entirely dispro- portionate to their importance.84 In these treatises , and in all the ...
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... marriage , and who lost his right hand for his pains . The printer of Stubbs's book was Hugh Singleton , who also brought out the first edition of the Calender , and who transferred it to another stationer in October , 1580. Perhaps ...
... marriage , and who lost his right hand for his pains . The printer of Stubbs's book was Hugh Singleton , who also brought out the first edition of the Calender , and who transferred it to another stationer in October , 1580. Perhaps ...
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... of High Steward of the town , which he had resigned " 20 By his marriage with the 19 Cooper , Annals , II , p . 242 . 20 Ibid . , p . 269 . , . daughter of Thomas , Lord Audley , who founded Magda- THE FEBRUARY ECLOGUE 53.
... of High Steward of the town , which he had resigned " 20 By his marriage with the 19 Cooper , Annals , II , p . 242 . 20 Ibid . , p . 269 . , . daughter of Thomas , Lord Audley , who founded Magda- THE FEBRUARY ECLOGUE 53.
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