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Title: The wanderings of a pen and pencil
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Palmer, F. P. (Francis Paul) Crowquill, Alfred, ill Bissett, Clark Prescott, 1875-1932, former owner. UPB
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Publisher: London : Jeremiah How
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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king and archbishop, and other elections of bishops andabbots were made. Soon after the Conquest, Termiguis, first bishop ofLincoln, and first bishop appointed by the Conqueror in this country, findingthe church in Oxfordshire in danger from the innovations of the Britons, whowere by no means reconciled to their conquerors, and who, different withthem in religion and its modes, out of sheer hatred to them, he removed theAbbey of Ensham, and added it to that of Marie-Stow, in Lincolnshire.He died, and his viscera were buried at Ensham, in the beginning of the reignof King Henry I., when the monastery of Stow was removed to Ensham, therevenues of which the king much augmented. Henry I. kept a feast atWoodstock, in 1123, and had a prime council there, and then, three daysafter Epiphany-day, he went out to take pleasure in the park, in chasingsuch things as were there, and in conversing with his noble company; andRobert, the Bishop of Lincoln, had been speaking with the king as they rode
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Ensham Cross. ENSHAM. 189 together, and he left the king but a few paces, when he was stricken fromhis palfrey by apoplexy, and he died the next day; and his bowels, also, wereburied at Ensham. In the year 1230, as it was exorbitant to expect the people in Oxfordshueto pay their respects, proper and pecuniary, at the mother church of Lincoln,the bishop granted that the Whitsuntide processions and solemnities shouldoccur at Ensham. So the people made great and gay work of it, and quicklygarnished flower-poles and mustered music and meats, and provided a dragonand a dragon banner to commemorate the defeat which their Saxon ancestorshad given to the sulky Britons, and every one thronged to Ensham. To usethe expressive exaggeration, all the world and his wife were there; theOxford scholars amongst the rest. Whether these learned mischief-makersjeered at the clowns of the country, or kissed the pretty rosy-lipped girls toofrequently, or let fly their arrows at the crimson-hosed calves of t

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