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THE WALNEY RELICS.
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Office of the Admiralty. It is interesting as showing the antiquity of a most ingenious and useful device, thanks to which dividers can be opened or closed by a person who has but one hand free for their manipulation.
The abdication of Richard II., in 1399, put an end to the dynasty of the Angevin kings in England.
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