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Before this, he too had been instrumental in creating the Rectified Scottish Rite, of which he reached the grade of Knight Beneficent, taking the name Franciscus, Eques a Capite Galeato.150For this reason there was a close relationship between the Rectified Scottish Rite and the Philadelphes.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Before this, he too had been instrumental in creating the Rectified Scottish Rite, of which he reached the grade of Knight Beneficent, taking the name Franciscus, Eques a Capite Galeato.150For this reason there was a close relationship between the Rectified Scottish Rite and the Philadelphes.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Before this, he too had been instrumental in creating the Rectified Scottish Rite, of which he reached the grade of Knight Beneficent, taking the name Franciscus, Eques a Capite Galeato.150For this reason there was a close relationship between the Rectified Scottish Rite and the Philadelphes.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Before the Reign of H. [Henry] 4., an Attempt was made to give the Tenants in Capite a Right to vote.
John Adams diary 22A, includes notes on Continental Congress, September - October 1774 1961
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Bishops, Abbots, Earls and Barons and Tenants in Capite held all the Lands in
John Adams diary 22A, includes notes on Continental Congress, September - October 1774 1961
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Capite barbaque albidis, abdomine stylato, segmentis cano marginatis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Capite subaurato, barba testaceo-albida, abdominis segmentis lutescente marginatis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Aureo-viridis, Capite Aurato, Frontalibus atris, antennis piceis, thorace vittis quatuor subobsoletis cupreis, pectore maculis duabus albis, alis cinereis apud costam nigris, alulis albis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Proletarii_ or _Capite Censorum_; _caput_, the Latin for head, being used in reference to these unimportant citizens for "person," as farmers use it nowadays when they enumerate animals as so many "head."
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Nevertheless there certainly were convents which were free from immorality, such, for example, as S. S.lvestre in Capite, where many of the daughters of the
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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