Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Dead . CHAP . III . 22 Of following the Corpse to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 ...
... Dead . CHAP . III . 22 Of following the Corpse to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 ...
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... Dead : * For at the Death of the Abbess St. Hilda , he tells us that one of the Sisters of a distant Monastery , as she was sleeping , thought she heard the well - known Sound of that Bell , which called them to Prayers , when any of ...
... Dead : * For at the Death of the Abbess St. Hilda , he tells us that one of the Sisters of a distant Monastery , as she was sleeping , thought she heard the well - known Sound of that Bell , which called them to Prayers , when any of ...
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... Dead ; yet could meet with no other Account of this Cere- mony , than that it was a Custom of the old Church of England . And for this Reason it is , that this Custom was first observed , and should be still retained among us , viz ...
... Dead ; yet could meet with no other Account of this Cere- mony , than that it was a Custom of the old Church of England . And for this Reason it is , that this Custom was first observed , and should be still retained among us , viz ...
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... Dead : And since that is repugnant to the Doctrine of our Church , our Prayers at that Time had much better be omitted . Indeed it is too true , this Custom is not so common as it should be ; but however , it is so much observed , as ...
... Dead : And since that is repugnant to the Doctrine of our Church , our Prayers at that Time had much better be omitted . Indeed it is too true , this Custom is not so common as it should be ; but however , it is so much observed , as ...
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... Dead . Bells must have been first used as Signals to convene the Peo- ple to their public Devotions . Mr. Bourne has overlooked a Passage in Du- rand's Ritual that would have been much to his Purpose " When any one is dying , says that ...
... Dead . Bells must have been first used as Signals to convene the Peo- ple to their public Devotions . Mr. Bourne has overlooked a Passage in Du- rand's Ritual that would have been much to his Purpose " When any one is dying , says that ...
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