Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... knight's advantage in battle correspondingly greater . By now even his face was com- pletely covered by a ponderous ... knights and retainers in the castle ; the palatine earls of Chester dispensed open hospitality all the year round ...
... knight's advantage in battle correspondingly greater . By now even his face was com- pletely covered by a ponderous ... knights and retainers in the castle ; the palatine earls of Chester dispensed open hospitality all the year round ...
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... knights . Inspired by the long rambling tales of the Arthurian legends , his ambition was to build a Round Tower in Windsor Castle to house a round table at which he and his knights could feast as equals ' in fair fellowship ' after ...
... knights . Inspired by the long rambling tales of the Arthurian legends , his ambition was to build a Round Tower in Windsor Castle to house a round table at which he and his knights could feast as equals ' in fair fellowship ' after ...
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... knights , who on Douglas's advice had cut down their twenty - foot lances to six foot , were unaccustomed to fighting without their horses and soon began to tire . In the end they , too , fell back in confusion . At this point , just as ...
... knights , who on Douglas's advice had cut down their twenty - foot lances to six foot , were unaccustomed to fighting without their horses and soon began to tire . In the end they , too , fell back in confusion . At this point , just as ...
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