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GLOSSITIS (-si-tis), inflammation of the tongue. When it occurs, it is genercess to the docks. The most remarkable public edifice is the cathedral; it was originally the church of a Benedictine abbey, dating from 1058, and was contion. It exhibits a great variety of styles, the choir, with its roof of fan tracery being a fine example of Perpendicular Gothic. Other buildings are several handsome old churches, es, the shire hall, the guildhall, the bishop's palace, and county schools of art and science. The schools include the collegiate school founded by Henry VIII., the theological college, the blue-coat school founded in 1666, now known as Sir Thomas Rich's school, and the grammar school of St. Mary de Crypt, founded in the time of Henry VII. Pop. (1919) 50,000.

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