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 98
... houses , dormitories and guest - houses ; their libraries , workshops , kitchens , butteries , bakehouses , breweries , laundries and dairies ; their granges , barns , fish - ponds , orchards , vineyards and gardens , their water ...
... houses , dormitories and guest - houses ; their libraries , workshops , kitchens , butteries , bakehouses , breweries , laundries and dairies ; their granges , barns , fish - ponds , orchards , vineyards and gardens , their water ...
Page 319
... houses which had recently been built in Fleet Street , declaring that never again should any house deface the beauty of that favourite country walk of the Londoners . Those who had gone on to Westminster returned by way of Holborn ...
... houses which had recently been built in Fleet Street , declaring that never again should any house deface the beauty of that favourite country walk of the Londoners . Those who had gone on to Westminster returned by way of Holborn ...
Page 398
... houses were still flimsy single or two - storeyed wooden structures ; one winter gale flattened more than six hundred , and fires often swept away whole wards . But the richer merchants ' and knights ' houses were already being built of ...
... houses were still flimsy single or two - storeyed wooden structures ; one winter gale flattened more than six hundred , and fires often swept away whole wards . But the richer merchants ' and knights ' houses were already being built of ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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