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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Encyclopedias
Godiva, Lady

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry, who pled in vain with her husband on behalf of the inhabitants of the place for relief from heavy exactions he had laid upon them, till one day he relented and consented he would grant her prayer if she would ride through Coventry on horseback naked, which, with his leave, she at once undertook to do, and did, not one soul of the place peering through to look at her save Peeping Tom, who paid for his curiosity by being smitten thereafter with blindness.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Godiva, Lady'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​g/godiva-lady.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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