A Letter to Dr Mead Concerning Some Antiquities in Berkshire,: Particularly Shewing that the White Horse, which Gives Name to the Vale, is a Monument of the West-Saxons, Made in Memory of a Great Victory Obtained Over the Danes A.D. 871Thomas Wood at the University Printing-House, 1738 - 43 páginas |
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