Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... London , had originally grown out of a village . Its institutions had a rustic origin : the borough and ward officers with agricultural names ; the moot which had begun as a manorial jurisdiction , and the burgh- mote horn that summoned ...
... London , had originally grown out of a village . Its institutions had a rustic origin : the borough and ward officers with agricultural names ; the moot which had begun as a manorial jurisdiction , and the burgh- mote horn that summoned ...
Page 400
... London could be a very turbulent city . Behind its bridge and seven portcullised gateways crowded the warlike rabble of appren- tices and journeymen who , when roused , became a terrible raging beast . Any infringement of its rights ...
... London could be a very turbulent city . Behind its bridge and seven portcullised gateways crowded the warlike rabble of appren- tices and journeymen who , when roused , became a terrible raging beast . Any infringement of its rights ...
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... London and flower of the wool merchants of all England ' - Thomas Paycocke of Cogge- shall , and John Barton of Holme who had engraved on the windows of his house : ' I thank God and ever shall , It is the sheep hath paid for all ...
... London and flower of the wool merchants of all England ' - Thomas Paycocke of Cogge- shall , and John Barton of Holme who had engraved on the windows of his house : ' I thank God and ever shall , It is the sheep hath paid for all ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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