William of Malmesbury wrote that
> Lady Godiva of Coventry (died 1075) bequeathed to a statue of Mary 'the
> circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that
> by fingering them one after another she might count her payers exactly. In
> thirteenth century these were called 'paternosters'; people who made them
> were called 'paternosterers'; in London these people worked in street
> called 'Paternoster Row'.
>
>Has anyone ever seen a medieval paternoster? Was it exactly the same as a modern rosary?
Oriens.
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