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) A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
) A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.

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) A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.