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 88
... appeal to his overlord's court to the only process recognised there , trial - by - battle . In this , whether fought by the principals or by professional champions , victory almost invariably went to the strongest and richest , the ...
... appeal to his overlord's court to the only process recognised there , trial - by - battle . In this , whether fought by the principals or by professional champions , victory almost invariably went to the strongest and richest , the ...
Page 105
... appeal to Rome and the freedom of papal legates to exercise independent powers within the realm , together with the exemption of clerics from the processes of ordinary criminal law and the Church's exclusive right to try and punish its ...
... appeal to Rome and the freedom of papal legates to exercise independent powers within the realm , together with the exemption of clerics from the processes of ordinary criminal law and the Church's exclusive right to try and punish its ...
Page 349
... appeal of treason . Like all medieval Parliaments it took its colour from the great lords who dominated it , in this case Gloucester and his fellow Appellants . Seated in the white hall of his palace , with the prelates on his right and ...
... appeal of treason . Like all medieval Parliaments it took its colour from the great lords who dominated it , in this case Gloucester and his fellow Appellants . Seated in the white hall of his palace , with the prelates on his right and ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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