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 128
... subject the wearer of the crown himself to it . The first course might have been easy ; the second was super- latively hard . It is the supreme measure of Henry II's achievement in educating his greater subjects that the best of them ...
... subject the wearer of the crown himself to it . The first course might have been easy ; the second was super- latively hard . It is the supreme measure of Henry II's achievement in educating his greater subjects that the best of them ...
Page 153
... subject , Andrew Horn , that ' law requires that one should use judgment , not force ' , he saw it as a contest , like the older trial - by - battle , in which a man was justified in using every techni- cal nicety . He observed the full ...
... subject , Andrew Horn , that ' law requires that one should use judgment , not force ' , he saw it as a contest , like the older trial - by - battle , in which a man was justified in using every techni- cal nicety . He observed the full ...
Page 194
... subjects , a Berwick merchant , appealed to the English courts against a decision of the Scottish Justiciars . Edward , whose pride it was never to refuse any man justice , ordered the record to be brought before the King's Bench at ...
... subjects , a Berwick merchant , appealed to the English courts against a decision of the Scottish Justiciars . Edward , whose pride it was never to refuse any man justice , ordered the record to be brought before the King's Bench at ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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