doesnn't the same situation apply today? Don't churchmen talk about 'York'
and 'Winchester' etc, meaning the current incumbent? Sometimes it gets
prefixed by a christian name. ). Is there any chance that we are electing
to view things from a completely different perspective of naming? It may
have been that rank outweighed individual identity....
I've come across numerous 16th century lists where unknown names have
obviously been filled in (e.g. 3 people with the surname 'Pasteler' in a
list of cooks
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From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:19 PM
Subject: British Christians
> "Monastery Library" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >....I am suspicious of Eborius (the old one, not the new one)
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> No particular reason for suspicion, Dom Ampleforth.
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> I think it's just the Ole Oriens, in new skins.
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> c
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> Bill East wrote:
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> >Yes, and that raises another point. One of the delegates was Eborius,
> Bishop of York. Constantine had been proclaimed Emperor in York in 306.
He
> must surely have been aware of the existence of a Christian community
there.
> Did he have any contact with them?
>
> >Eborius.
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