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• holy orders - orders, holy orders, holy [Lat. ordo,=rank], in Christianity, the traditional degrees of the ...
• John Palsgrave - Palsgrave, John Palsgrave, John , d. 1554, English scholar, educated at Oxford and at the Univ. of ...
• William Barnes - Barnes, William Barnes, William, 1801–86, English poet and philologist. After a career as a ...
• John Strype - Strype, John Strype, John , 1643–1737, English ecclesiastical historian and biographer. A ...
• William Chillingworth - Chillingworth, William Chillingworth, William, 1602–44, English theologian. He was converted ...

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