The Life of Fisher Transcribed from Ms. Harleian 6382Early English Text Society, 1921 - 142 pages |
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The Life of Fisher: Transcribed From Ms. Harleian 6382 (Classic Reprint) Ronald Bayne No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 62 - Canturburie, first to have your licence, in as much as you were metropolitane, to put this matter in question, and so I did of all you my lords: to which you granted under your seales, heere to be shewed.