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18 de jun. de 2024 · A novel by J G Lewis Salisbury 1232 An elderly nun is accused of witchcraft after a priest dies under mysterious circumstances. When the nun tells Ela something that could turn the king against her nemesis, justiciar Hubert de Burgh, she knows she must whisper it in the king’s ear.
25 de jun. de 2024 · When the countess of Salisbury was beheaded, sentence of death was pronounced upon one Master Nevel, a gentleman well known in this Court, and of mediocre wit (faculte), who, for not revealing the conspiracy lately made in the North which one of the conspirators had disclosed to him, has been led thither to be executed, although some ...
Hace 3 días · In 1232, Ela, Countess of Salisbury, founded a nunnery at Lacock and proceeded to build an Augustian house, now Lacock Abbey. Ela, herself became a nun and then abbess at Lacock. The nunnery continued to run until the dissolution of the abbeys whereby Lacock was handed over to Sir William Sharington in 1540 who converted the abbey ...
11 de jun. de 2024 · John Donne Poem. To the Countess of Salisbury. 0. August, 1614. Fair, great, and good, since seeing you, we see. What heaven can do, and what any earth can be: Since now your beauty shines, now when the sun. Grown stale, is to so low a value run, That his dishevelled beams and scattered fires. Serve but for ladies’ periwigs and tires.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. read more. Lacock Archives. The archives of Lacock Abbey and the families which owned it form a unique collection for the history of the local area.
Hace 9 horas · In Sullivan's sixth novel, a large Victorian house on the Maine coast is the nexus for a story about lives once lost to history, and of one woman’s own rocky journey toward self-discovery and ...
Hace 6 días · 'Sarum' is also found in a similar position in another set of leonines — those cut upon the stone slab at Lacock Abbey that once covered the remains of Ela, Countess of Salisbury, the foundress of that nunnery.
