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    The Book of Saint Albans, originally Boke of Seynt Albans, is the common title of a book printed in 1486 that is a compilation of matters relating to...
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    600 residents was named St. Albans, after St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, which itself was named after Saint Alban. The name had been in use for...
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    St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England...
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    groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published...
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  • taken from a poem found in the Book of Saint Albans. In medieval England, the only bird a knave (male servant, or man of low class) was legally allowed...
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    the St Albans Museum + Gallery, located in the old St Albans Town Hall, which focuses on the history of the town and of Saint Alban. Because of its proximity...
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  • under the heading of "termis of venery &c.", extends to 70 items, and the list in the Book of Saint Albans (1486) runs to 164 items, many of which, even though...
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    Rache (category History of hunting)
    writing in The Book of Saint Albans (1486) writes (translation): 'My dear sons, I will now teach each one of you how many kinds of beasts must be upreared...
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    archive.org "Forests and Chases of England and Wales: A Glossary" St John's College, Oxford. Book of Saint Albans (1486) "Magna Britannica et Hibernia"...
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    publications on the subject of fishing, such as the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle included in the Book of Saint Albans. Six verses were quoted from...
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    record of the Ardeidae. Ibis, 161(1) DOI:10.1111/ibi.12600 Berners, Juliana (1486). The Book of Saint Albans. Lipton, James (1991). An Exaltation of Larks...
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    Dog type (redirect from List of dog types)
    Saint Albans, published in 1486, a "school" book about hawking, hunting, fishing, and heraldry, attributed to Juliana Berners (Barnes), lists dogs of...
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    English Mastiff (category National symbols of England)
    with same meaning. The first list of dog breed names in the English language, contained within The Book of Saint Albans, published in 1465, includes "Mastiff...
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    Battle of St Albans took place on 22 May, 1455, at St Albans, 22 miles (35 km) north of London, and traditionally marks the beginning of the Wars of the...
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    Dog breed (redirect from Breed of dog)
    Saint Albans, published in 1486, a "school" book about hawking, hunting, fishing, and heraldry, attributed to Juliana Berners (Barnes), lists dogs of...
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    Wynkyn de Worde (category Printers of incunabula)
    Pauper The Book of Saint Albans The Canterbury Tales Contemplacyon of sinners by William Touris Mandeville's Travels Beves of Hamtoun Guy of Warwick The...
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    Falconry (category Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity)
    often-quoted Book of Saint Albans or Boke of St Albans, first printed in 1486, often attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, provides this hierarchy of hawks and...
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    Heraldry (redirect from Coat of Arms motto)
    Book of Saint Albans, compiled in 1486, declares that Christ himself was a gentleman of coat armour. These claims are now regarded as the fantasy of medieval...
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    Western jackdaw (category Birds of Eurasia)
    of chowhis", and then in Juliana Berners' Book of Saint Albans (c.1480), as "a Clateryng of choughes". White, Gilbert (1833). The Natural History of Selborne...
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  • William of St Albans (fl. 1178) was a Benedictine monk and hagiographer who wrote a history of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, the first such work to name...
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    Alders Gate, 1634) Markham edited the Book of Saint Albans sometimes attributed to Juliana Berners, under the title of The Gentleman's Academy (1595). He...
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  • The St Albans Press was the third printing press set up in England, in 1479. It was situated in the Abbey Gateway, St Albans, a part of the Benedictine...
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  • Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint Albans Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist Francis Berry (1915–2006)...
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    Juliana Berners (category Writers from St Albans)
    Boke of Saint Albans, published in 1810 by Joseph Haslewood, contains an introduction which examines the authorship of the book and the biography of Juliana...
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  • enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. The Book of Saint Albans is published. First recorded use of the word 'football' to describe a game in which the...
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  • St Albans School is a public school (traditional English fee-charging day and former boarding school) in the city of St Albans in Hertfordshire. Entry...
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    Nazareth. Husband of Mary and guardian of Jesus. Saint Alban, late 3rd or early 4th century, town of Verulamium, renamed St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England...
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    St Albans Abbey in the 12th century. It is widely considered to be one of the most important examples of English Romanesque book production; it is of almost...
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  • British Saint Alban, who died at Verulamium (now St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) around the year 300; later sources claim that both Albans had been...
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    Sunniva (redirect from Saint Sunniva)
    well as all of Western Norway. Sunniva was venerated alongside her brother Alban, who in Norwegian tradition was identified with Saint Alban, the Roman-era...
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