Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 140
... Council of Fifteen was to ' have the power of advising the King in good faith concerning the government of the ... Council's knowledge – to reform the royal household , to place the castles in the hands of native- born custodians , and ...
... Council of Fifteen was to ' have the power of advising the King in good faith concerning the government of the ... Council's knowledge – to reform the royal household , to place the castles in the hands of native- born custodians , and ...
Page 346
... Council of Fourteen . The earl of Arundel was some- thing of a popular hero ; in the previous winter , shortly after the Commission had been set up , he had won a spectacular victory off Margate over a French fleet that had been ...
... Council of Fourteen . The earl of Arundel was some- thing of a popular hero ; in the previous winter , shortly after the Commission had been set up , he had won a spectacular victory off Margate over a French fleet that had been ...
Page 357
... Council , he asked those who were ruling in his name his age . When they replied , as they could not help doing , that he was twenty - two , he pointed out that the law assured to every heir of full legal age whose father was dead the ...
... Council , he asked those who were ruling in his name his age . When they replied , as they could not help doing , that he was twenty - two , he pointed out that the law assured to every heir of full legal age whose father was dead the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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