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A town in Kent in southeastern England
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Canterbury (, , or ) is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site , which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury , a local government district of Kent , England. It lies on the River Stour . The Archbishop of Canterbury is the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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Old English Cantware-buruh "fortified town of the Kentish people," from Cant-ware "the people of Kent" (see Kent ). The Roman name was Duroverno , from Romano-British *duro- "walled town."\n \nPope Gregory the Great intended to make London, as the largest ...
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Canterbury found respite and relief at last from the fury of the Angevin in the citadels of the pious King of the Franks.
The skip in which she had been found contained mailbags from the Canterbury area--had a fanatical religious order seized the children, perhaps a group of deranged high churchmen opposed to the liberal archepiscopal establishment?
This has been true of the Athanasian creed, in the Anglican Church, for two centuries more or less, unless the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tillotson, stood alone in wishing the church were well rid of it.
Edmund Grindal, the Archbishop of Canterbury whose severe and Calvinist views were not to her liking.
Kennetts were succeeded by Miss Canterbury, who wanted something which neither Sauterelle nor any other modern shop was likely to have.
In 1152 a papal legate had carried out a great reform by which four archbishops, wholly independent of Canterbury and receiving their palls from Rome, were set over four provinces.
When he was eleven years of age, both his parents were killed in a climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, and the youth came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintly-named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent.
The see of Canterbury under the new primate was to win back all lands and privileges lost during the civil wars, at whatever cost to the interests of the whole court party, of barons who found their rights to Church appointments and Church lands questioned, and of clerks of the royal household who trembled for their posts and benefices.
Thus determined, he packed up his necessaries in a portmanteau, attempted to amuse his creditors with promises of speedy payment, and, venturing to come forth in the dark, took a place in the Canterbury stage-coach, after having converted his superfluities into ready money.
Canterbury first, then Rye, as if the imaginations of Chaucer and James might fall at her feet like cathedral stones or tiles off roofs.
And more is to follow, for we must not forget that William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, languishes in the Tower awaiting trial.
Right at the beginning of October came messengers from the parts about Dover from London and from Canterbury to bring the king tidings that have troubled his heart.
If you have a bishop or an antiquary or something of that sort coming to lunch you just mention the fact when you are ordering the garden, and you get an old-world pleasaunce, with clipped yew hedges and a sun-dial and hollyhocks, and perhaps a mulberry tree, and borders of sweet-williams and Canterbury bells, and an old-fashioned beehive or two tucked away in a corner.
THE CANTERBURY TALES And other Poems of GEOFFREY CHAUCER Edited for Popular Perusal by D.
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