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Malmesbury is a small town in Wiltshire: it was a borough with municipal franchises, but it owed its importance to the presence of a Benedictine abbey the 24th richest in ...

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in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev) Length: 196 words
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in Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Length: 436 words
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in The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3) Length: 72 words

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