Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... called them had also felt the pressure of Asiatic hordes moving westward through the forests behind them . Even before Rome fell , spurred on by hunger and hope of loot , they had taken to their boats to prey on the rich Roman island ...
... called them had also felt the pressure of Asiatic hordes moving westward through the forests behind them . Even before Rome fell , spurred on by hunger and hope of loot , they had taken to their boats to prey on the rich Roman island ...
Page 76
... called them . After William II's death in 1100 from a mysterious arrow in the New Forest , it was the English who enabled his successor , the Conqueror's youngest son , Henry , to wrest Normandy from his brother , Duke Robert . At the ...
... called them . After William II's death in 1100 from a mysterious arrow in the New Forest , it was the English who enabled his successor , the Conqueror's youngest son , Henry , to wrest Normandy from his brother , Duke Robert . At the ...
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... called praecipe directed the sheriff to order the overlord of any land seized to restore it immediately or answer for his failure in the royal court . Another called novel disseisin commanded him to reinstate any dispossessed freeholder ...
... called praecipe directed the sheriff to order the overlord of any land seized to restore it immediately or answer for his failure in the royal court . Another called novel disseisin commanded him to reinstate any dispossessed freeholder ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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