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 but often referred to locally as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral...
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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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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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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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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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Collective noun (redirect from Nouns of assemblage)
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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Hart (deer) (section Persistence of the term)
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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