 | Theology - 1836 - 814 pages
...adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being kept in a certain old chest, which was enclosed by the wall of the church, were the only ones that were saved, and escaped the fire. These are now our chief and principal documents, which were formerly secondary, and... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - Church history - 1845 - 560 pages
...adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being kept in a certain old chest, which was enclosed by the wall of the church, were the only ones that were saved, and escaped the fire. These are now our chief and principal documents, which were formerly secondary, and... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Great Britain - 1861 - 490 pages
...characters, as this kind of writing had for a long time, on account of the Normans, been neglected. These charters having been deposited in an ancient...the wall of the church, were the only ones that were preserved from the fire. These now form our principal and especial muniments, having been long neglected... | |
 | Mary Evelyn Monckton Jones - Great Britain - 1922 - 220 pages
...the Normans, been utterly neglected, and was now understood by only a few of the more aged men. . . . These charters having been deposited in an ancient...ones that were saved and preserved from the fire. ... (p. 201). also lost at the same time an astronomical table of extreme beauty and costliness, wonderfully... | |
 | Michigan - 1927 - 780 pages
...adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being kept in a certain old chest, which was enclosed by the wall of the church, were the only ones that were saved, and escaped the fire. These are now our chief and principal documents, which were formerly secondary, and... | |
 | Michigan - 1927 - 758 pages
...adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being kept in a certain old chest, which was enclosed by the wall of the church, were the only ones that were saved, and escaped the fire. These are now our chief and principal documents, which were formerly secondary, and... | |
 | Alfred Hiatt - History - 2004 - 306 pages
...seposita, causa barbarae literae fuerant iam a longo levipensa et despecta . . . these charters . . . were the only ones that were saved and preserved from...consequence of the barbarous characters in which they were written.7 In many ways this account of the 1091 fire sums up the one of the chief preoccupations of... | |
 | Business Historical Society - Business - 1926 - 282 pages
...adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being kept in a certain old chest, which was enclosed by the wall of the church, were the only ones that were saved, and escaped the fire. These are now our chief and principal documents, which were formerly secondary, and... | |
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... and was now known only to a few of the more aged; that so the younger ones, being instructed to read this character, might be more competent to use the documents of their monastery against their adversaries in their old age. These chirographs, being... 