Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... boys . But , on trying , I soon discovered that , outside these three special periods , I knew little of our history ... boy's history of England in one volume , but on an old boy's history in many . As a result , I have been able to ...
... boys . But , on trying , I soon discovered that , outside these three special periods , I knew little of our history ... boy's history of England in one volume , but on an old boy's history in many . As a result , I have been able to ...
Page 338
... boy King , had miraculously saved the monarchy in the revolutionary crisis of 1381 , in the hands of the same boy grown to manhood was all but to destroy it . For , having seen it effect such magic when his ministers and elders had ...
... boy King , had miraculously saved the monarchy in the revolutionary crisis of 1381 , in the hands of the same boy grown to manhood was all but to destroy it . For , having seen it effect such magic when his ministers and elders had ...
Page 422
... boys and another for the bishop's other scholastic foundation , New College , Oxford , equipping both with Perpendicular chapels dedicated to the Virgin . In the same reign a still greater architect , Henry Yevele - for forty years the ...
... boys and another for the bishop's other scholastic foundation , New College , Oxford , equipping both with Perpendicular chapels dedicated to the Virgin . In the same reign a still greater architect , Henry Yevele - for forty years the ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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