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 142
... four of their members in every shire to ensure that the sheriff observed the law and to report his misdemeanours to the Justiciar . They had now been given the duty of electing in the county courts four men from the shire from whom the ...
... four of their members in every shire to ensure that the sheriff observed the law and to report his misdemeanours to the Justiciar . They had now been given the duty of electing in the county courts four men from the shire from whom the ...
Page 224
... Four years after Halidon Hill - whose result was little noticed at the time outside the British Isles - England became involved in a long inconclusive war with France , caused by the refusal of King Philip Valois to restore to Edward ...
... Four years after Halidon Hill - whose result was little noticed at the time outside the British Isles - England became involved in a long inconclusive war with France , caused by the refusal of King Philip Valois to restore to Edward ...
Page 327
... four score paces , and there he fell to the ground half dead . And when the commons saw him fall and did not know for certain how it was , they began to bend their bows to shoot . ' It was thirty - five years since Crécy and Neville's ...
... four score paces , and there he fell to the ground half dead . And when the commons saw him fall and did not know for certain how it was , they began to bend their bows to shoot . ' It was thirty - five years since Crécy and Neville's ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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