Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... land which his Anglo - Saxon predecessors had improvidently ' booked ' away . He kept a fifth for himself and his family , and a quarter for the Church . Of the remainder he redistributed all but an insignificant fraction among his ...
... land which his Anglo - Saxon predecessors had improvidently ' booked ' away . He kept a fifth for himself and his family , and a quarter for the Church . Of the remainder he redistributed all but an insignificant fraction among his ...
Page 162
... land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of Christendom , it became established principle that no man need answer for his freehold ...
... land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of Christendom , it became established principle that no man need answer for his freehold ...
Page 164
... land sitting on benches round a table occupied by the bailiff and his clerk . Its business was of a petty kind - claims for services arising out of land , detention of chattels and small debts , complaints about the maiming of beasts ...
... land sitting on benches round a table occupied by the bailiff and his clerk . Its business was of a petty kind - claims for services arising out of land , detention of chattels and small debts , complaints about the maiming of beasts ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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