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A descent from Adam which reached once to Edward IV, but ends now imperfectly in the fifth century with - reading from left to right - pope 'Hillarius', the emperor Theodosius, 'Meroneus paganus', king of France, Vortigern - 'Vortigernus dux cornubie coronatur in regem anglie anno domini ccccxlvi. Regnauit annis xvi ' -and, in five branches, the descendants of Woden, who is placed in the fourth century after Christ and thirty-sixth in descent from Tyras, son of Japhet and grandson of Noah. Detail of the first roundel showing the serpent, a woman from the waist up, handing Eve the apple
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A descent from Adam which reached once to Edward IV, but ends now imperfectly in the fifth century with - reading from left to right - pope 'Hillarius', the emperor Theodosius, 'Meroneus paganus', king of France, Vortigern - 'Vortigernus dux cornubie coronatur in regem anglie anno domini ccccxlvi. Regnauit annis xvi ' -and, in five branches, the descendants of Woden, who is placed in the fourth century after Christ and thirty-sixth in descent from Tyras, son of Japhet and grandson of Noah. Detail of the first roundel showing the serpent, a woman from the waist up, handing Eve the apple
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