Transcriber’s Note

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“Whereby may be discerned that so fervent was the zeal of those elder times to God’s service and honour, that they freely endowed the church with some part of their possessions; and that in those good works even the meaner sort of men, as well as the pious founders, were not backwards.”

Dugdale’s Antiq. Warwickshire.


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