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 273
... streets on a white charger while bells clanged , fountains spouted wine and thousands of liveried guildsmen marched behind mounted wardens and aldermen through streets hung with tapestry . When the pro- cession reached Westminster Hall ...
... streets on a white charger while bells clanged , fountains spouted wine and thousands of liveried guildsmen marched behind mounted wardens and aldermen through streets hung with tapestry . When the pro- cession reached Westminster Hall ...
Page 323
... streets , forcing passers - by to cry , ' With King Richard and the true commons ' and putting everyone to death who refused . By nightfall ' there was hardly a street in the city in which there were not bodies lying of those who had ...
... streets , forcing passers - by to cry , ' With King Richard and the true commons ' and putting everyone to death who refused . By nightfall ' there was hardly a street in the city in which there were not bodies lying of those who had ...
Page 400
... streets like a torrent . Once , when some Hoxton resi- dents enclosed a meadow where the Londoners had long taken their Sunday walks , a turner in a fool's coat ran through the streets crying , ' Shovels and spades ! ' , upon which the ...
... streets like a torrent . Once , when some Hoxton resi- dents enclosed a meadow where the Londoners had long taken their Sunday walks , a turner in a fool's coat ran through the streets crying , ' Shovels and spades ! ' , upon which the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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