The Poems of William of Shoreham: Ab. 1320 Vicar of Chart-Sutton, Volume 1

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Early English Text Society, 1902 - 246 pages
 

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Page 193 - These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
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Page 206 - Furnivall in 1864 for the purpose of bringing the mass of Old English Literature within the reach of the ordinary student, and of wiping away the reproach under which England had long rested, of having felt little interest in the monuments of her early language and life.
Page 135 - Hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti : mysterium fidei : qui pro vobis, et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum.
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Page 207 - Documents from the early Registers of the Bishops of all Dioceses in Great Britain. Ordinances and Documents of the City of Worcester. Chronicles of the Brute. T. Breus's Passion of Christ, 1422.
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