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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,†Vol. 72—No. 3726
Fix this textWednesday, July 11, 1951
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Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
Fix this textJeppelts
Fix this textModern Drama Stems
Fix this textFrom the Miracle Plays of
Fix this textChester’s Early Monks
Fix this text/'-'HESTER has for many centuries been
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Fix this textformer years the various religious bodies
Fix this textowned much of the town. Before the
Fix this textdissolution of the monasteries by Henry
Fix this textVIII (1509-1547), Chester Cathedral was
Fix this textthe Benedictine Abbey of St. Werburgh.
Fix this textIt was designed as an abbey church and
Fix this textin the buildings grouped around its
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Fix this textThe site of the cathedral, according to
Fix this texttradition, was occupied in Roman times
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Fix this textPaul. History records that the relics of
Fix this textSt. Werburgh, who died about 7()0, were
Fix this textbrought here in 875 from Hanbury in
Fix this textStaffordshire by Elfreda, the daughter of
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Fix this textDanish invaders. The earliest documents
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Fix this textand in 1093 the Norman Ball of Chester,
Fix this textHugh Lupus, with the'aid of St. Anselm,
Fix this textArchbishop of Canterbury, founded the
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Fix this textsucceeding five centuries the monastery
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Fix this textThe monks wrote Miracle Plays
Fix this textillustrating Biblical episodes, which were
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Fix this textAt the Reformation in 1541 Henry
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