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- noun Plural form of
altarage .
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The church contained twenty-four altarages, which were removed in 1559 by the Lords of the Congregation in their march from Perth to Edinburgh; and probably still further damage was done by
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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It had in its palmy days thirty altarages, each with a separate priest and fifteen choristers, and it was from the pulpit here that John Knox preached his famous sermon on the purifying of the temple.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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In the following Century a great many separate altarages were endowed; and in the year 1466, it was erected by James the Third, into a Collegiate
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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