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Title: The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church

Author: A. Hamilton Thompson

Release date: January 7, 2018 [eBook #56331]

Language: English

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THE HISTORICAL GROWTH OF THE
ENGLISH PARISH CHURCH

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Title Page

THE HISTORICAL
GROWTH OF THE
ENGLISH PARISH
CHURCH

BY

A. HAMILTON THOMPSON

M.A., F.S.A.

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1911

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

With the exception of the coat of arms at
the foot, the design on the title page is a
reproduction of one used by the earliest known
Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521