Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... shillings daily , three loaves , one of the best quality and two less good , two measures of wine , a wax candle and forty candle - ends . He was also allowed two meals a day at the King's table . A humble official like the man who ...
... shillings daily , three loaves , one of the best quality and two less good , two measures of wine , a wax candle and forty candle - ends . He was also allowed two meals a day at the King's table . A humble official like the man who ...
Page 240
... shilling a day , of a knight - bachelor twice as much , of a banneret four shillings a day . Bannerets were knights of proved valour and experience who , distinguished by a rect- angular banner , arrayed and directed contingents in the ...
... shilling a day , of a knight - bachelor twice as much , of a banneret four shillings a day . Bannerets were knights of proved valour and experience who , distinguished by a rect- angular banner , arrayed and directed contingents in the ...
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... shillings earned by a shepherd or ploughman . The bishop of Durham's castle above the Wear was the greatest fortress in the north ; the bishop of Exeter had nine residences in Devon alone . The archiepiscopal palace of Bishopthorpe was ...
... shillings earned by a shepherd or ploughman . The bishop of Durham's castle above the Wear was the greatest fortress in the north ; the bishop of Exeter had nine residences in Devon alone . The archiepiscopal palace of Bishopthorpe was ...
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