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Handbook to the cathedrals of England (1861)

King, Richard John, 1818-1879 · London, J. Murray; [etc., etc.] · leaf 202

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156 glipott €a%bral. known of the history of the monument beyond a tra- dition that it is that of an Irish prince who died at Ripon on his return from Palestine, bringing with him … On a monument in the nave. Ilipon. a lion which had followed him like a dog. (This story is recorded of Roger de Mowbray, the famous crusader and the founder of Byland Abbey ; and one very similar is the subject of the " Chevalier au Lion," one of the most favourite romances of the thirteenth…

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