Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... remained to be seen if she could bar her gates . The man who now set himself to conquer England was one of the great men of history . His mother was the unmarried daughter of a Falaise tanner ; his great - great - grandfather had been a ...
... remained to be seen if she could bar her gates . The man who now set himself to conquer England was one of the great men of history . His mother was the unmarried daughter of a Falaise tanner ; his great - great - grandfather had been a ...
Page 201
... remained in English hands . Wallace himself occupied Berwick town , putting to the sword the few English merchants who had been foolhardy enough to remain . His triumph , however , was shortlived . In 1298 , set on avenging his ...
... remained in English hands . Wallace himself occupied Berwick town , putting to the sword the few English merchants who had been foolhardy enough to remain . His triumph , however , was shortlived . In 1298 , set on avenging his ...
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... remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another , at least once in a generation . For three hundred years - a period of time as great as that which divides us from ...
... remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another , at least once in a generation . For three hundred years - a period of time as great as that which divides us from ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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