Word: harbledown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urry, archivist to the Dean and Chapter Library at Canterbury, presenting one of the least convincing arguments on taxation since the days when square-riggers carried marked-up tea to Boston. Noting that the Canterbury city council makes an annual grant to the almshouses in the nearby village of Harbledown, Archivist Urry wondered why. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So Urry peered down through history, found the grant's origin nearly 800 years deep. In 1170, his dreams darkened by the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Beckett, the conscience-stricken Henry II ordered the grant...
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