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 87
... royal councils - one held at the Wiltshire hunting palace of Clarendon in 1166 and the other ten years later at Northampton - trials of murder , robbery , larceny , rape , forgery , arson and harbouring criminals were re- served to the ...
... royal councils - one held at the Wiltshire hunting palace of Clarendon in 1166 and the other ten years later at Northampton - trials of murder , robbery , larceny , rape , forgery , arson and harbouring criminals were re- served to the ...
Page 141
... royal courts by permitting them to plead by attorney , and had sought to protect merchants from royal purveyors , and widows and minors from grasping overlords . Now , at a time of widespread hardship and discontent , when a succession ...
... royal courts by permitting them to plead by attorney , and had sought to protect merchants from royal purveyors , and widows and minors from grasping overlords . Now , at a time of widespread hardship and discontent , when a succession ...
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... royal power and reduce that of the great feudal lords who wished to keep the King in perpetual leading - strings . The brain of the royal party was Michael de la Pole , son of a rich Hull merchant who had helped to finance Edward III's ...
... royal power and reduce that of the great feudal lords who wished to keep the King in perpetual leading - strings . The brain of the royal party was Michael de la Pole , son of a rich Hull merchant who had helped to finance Edward III's ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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