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 344
... magnates had now gone to the latter . Richard was once again powerless and at their mercy . He felt the humiliation keenly . Yet his minority was nearing its close and , for all their ingrained distrust of him , Gloucester and Arundel ...
... magnates had now gone to the latter . Richard was once again powerless and at their mercy . He felt the humiliation keenly . Yet his minority was nearing its close and , for all their ingrained distrust of him , Gloucester and Arundel ...
Page 345
... magnates in the previous autumn had impugned the prerogative and that those who had counselled and procured it were therefore guilty of treason . He also obtained from them a declaration that Parliament was under an obligation to ...
... magnates in the previous autumn had impugned the prerogative and that those who had counselled and procured it were therefore guilty of treason . He also obtained from them a declaration that Parliament was under an obligation to ...
Page 357
... magnates whose birth , under the long - established custom of the realm , best fitted them to act as constitutional advisers to the throne . In the writs issued to the sheriffs informing them of the King's assumption of full regal ...
... magnates whose birth , under the long - established custom of the realm , best fitted them to act as constitutional advisers to the throne . In the writs issued to the sheriffs informing them of the King's assumption of full regal ...
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The Faith | 24 |
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