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 101
... raised the Cotswold towns and villages . They made her wool as famous as their brother monks of Cîteaux made the vineyards of the stony Côte d'Or . And if the great names of Chambertin and Clos de Vougeot still recall for lovers of wine ...
... raised the Cotswold towns and villages . They made her wool as famous as their brother monks of Cîteaux made the vineyards of the stony Côte d'Or . And if the great names of Chambertin and Clos de Vougeot still recall for lovers of wine ...
Page 405
... raise money from the trade . The first was to requisition part of the season's crop and , treating it as a forced ... raised and of the royal officers who administered it . The means by which the wool tax was collected was the staple ...
... raise money from the trade . The first was to requisition part of the season's crop and , treating it as a forced ... raised and of the royal officers who administered it . The means by which the wool tax was collected was the staple ...
Page 423
... raised by a few hundred parish- ioners , like the 300 - feet steeple of Louth , begun in 1501 and finished in 1515 , less than a generation before the English Reformation . One tower of the time stands in a class by itself , the great ...
... raised by a few hundred parish- ioners , like the 300 - feet steeple of Louth , begun in 1501 and finished in 1515 , less than a generation before the English Reformation . One tower of the time stands in a class by itself , the great ...
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