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2 days ago · The abbot of Reading brought the matter before the king in council, and was able to show that although the monks of Reading were deputed by grants of the king's progenitors to stay in the Leominster house and to celebrate there divine service and pray for the king, they were removable at the will of the abbot alone, as appeared from the composition made between the then bishop and chapter of ...
Jun 19, 2024 · The Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence (WVS) was formed in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading. The WVS proved an attractive way for women to help in the war effort and the organisation boasted 300,000 members within 12 months.
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Jun 29, 2024 · Hardcover, 664 pp., 6 x 9, ISBN 0-8146-2325-5, $59.95. RB 1980 in Latin and English with Notes is a modern, scholarly translation ed. by Timothy Fry, OSB (Liturgical Press, 1981), 672 p., $39.95. The translation by itself is also available in paperback, $2.95. Daily reading from the Rule of Saint Benedict, the sixth century constitution of ...
Jun 27, 2024 · The origin of Reading was probably commercial, but its growth was no doubt fostered by the presence of a religious house which was founded there at an uncertain date, and which was destroyed probably by the Danes in 1006. (fn. 1) Reading is a Parliamentary borough and the capital of Berkshire, and it is rapidly growing.
4 days ago · The original settlement at Reading was probably along the Kennet eastward from the Seven Bridges to the east of the High Bridge. A mediaeval tradition preserved in one of the chartularies of Reading Abbey (fn. 14) asserted that Magdalen chapel 'at the east side of the town' was once a parish church.
Jun 8, 2024 · Marchioness of Lorne. Tuesday 8th June 1954 was the last day in service of the paddle steamer Marchioness of Lorne . She had already been displaced the previous summer from her old run between Gourock and the Holy Loch by one of the new nimble and more cost effective twin screw diesels, Maid of Ashton .
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Jun 11, 2024 · The 3rd Marchioness of Londonderry seems to have worn some of the Pearls on her kirtle to the Coronation of King William IV and Queen Adelaide in 1831. During the 1880s, the 6th Marchioness of Londonderry wore the Londonderry Pearl Parure for a print, and also attached various elements of the Parure onto her outfit when she dressed as Empress Maria Theresa of Austria for the iconic Devonshire ...
