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 194
... Edward . Trouble began almost immediately . Almost before Balliol had been crowned , one of his subjects , a Berwick merchant , appealed to the English courts against a decision of the Scottish Justiciars . Edward , whose pride it was ...
... Edward . Trouble began almost immediately . Almost before Balliol had been crowned , one of his subjects , a Berwick merchant , appealed to the English courts against a decision of the Scottish Justiciars . Edward , whose pride it was ...
Page 229
... Edward challenged him to single combat , Philip merely reminded him of his broken homage . The final blow to Edward's hopes came when money to pay his allies ran out just as Tournai seemed on the point of surrendering . At that moment ...
... Edward challenged him to single combat , Philip merely reminded him of his broken homage . The final blow to Edward's hopes came when money to pay his allies ran out just as Tournai seemed on the point of surrendering . At that moment ...
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... Edward II and , like him , executed by Roger Mortimer , was a son of Edward I by his second wife , Princess Margaret of France , and she herself had been reared in the royal courts of France and of the young Edward III in the highest ...
... Edward II and , like him , executed by Roger Mortimer , was a son of Edward I by his second wife , Princess Margaret of France , and she herself had been reared in the royal courts of France and of the young Edward III in the highest ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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