Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... neighbours , or of his lord or the more distant king for breaches of their simple laws . The pioneer farmer , or ceorl as he was called , was the core both of the local community and of the petty kingdom or ' kindred ' to which he ...
... neighbours , or of his lord or the more distant king for breaches of their simple laws . The pioneer farmer , or ceorl as he was called , was the core both of the local community and of the petty kingdom or ' kindred ' to which he ...
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... neighbours had been part of popular law from time immemorial . Through the ingenuity and good sense of this strong , subtle - minded and original ruler , the corporate conscience of a group of neighbours , acquainted with . the persons ...
... neighbours had been part of popular law from time immemorial . Through the ingenuity and good sense of this strong , subtle - minded and original ruler , the corporate conscience of a group of neighbours , acquainted with . the persons ...
Page 171
... neighbours ' lands and guard their own , as in the far days before a Plantagenet king had made feudalism a political ... neighbour . Had it not been for one circumstance the absorption of 171 WILD WALES.
... neighbours ' lands and guard their own , as in the far days before a Plantagenet king had made feudalism a political ... neighbour . Had it not been for one circumstance the absorption of 171 WILD WALES.
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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