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Excerpt from The Patrimony of the Roman Church: In the Time of Gregory the Great Edward Spearing was killed in action near Delville Wood on September II, 1916, at the age of twenty-six. He was educated at the Perse Grammar School, under Dr W. H. D. Rouse, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied History and Law. He was a Scholar of his college, and obtained a first class in Part I of the Historical Tripos, 1910, and a second class in Part Ii, 1911. In 1912 he was placed first in order of merit in Class II of Part II of the Law Tripos. For the next two years he continued the study of law, and was articled to a Cambridge firm of solicitors. As soon as war broke out he volunteered for service, and was gazetted to a commission in the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on August 18, 1914. He trained with his battalion in England till the following spring, and in May, 1915, went with it to France. In August of the same year he was promoted lieutenant. He saw heavy fighting round Festubert that summer, and one of his brother officers wrote to a mutual friend: "Spearing is in great form, and is extraordinarily good in the trenches and when there is trouble afoot. He knows everything about the lie of the land and can size up a position in an instant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.