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 191
... taken suddenly ill at Harbey in Nottinghamshire . On 20 November she died in his arms.1 ' My harp is turned to mourning , ' he wrote , ' in life I loved her dearly , nor can I cease to love her in death . ' She had been his inseparable ...
... taken suddenly ill at Harbey in Nottinghamshire . On 20 November she died in his arms.1 ' My harp is turned to mourning , ' he wrote , ' in life I loved her dearly , nor can I cease to love her in death . ' She had been his inseparable ...
Page 267
... taken at Pont Audemer , he carried the walls that night , all but one tower which held out till the 6th . Then , on 7 July , with much booty and many prisoners , he set out for home . For with John's huge army only a dozen miles away he ...
... taken at Pont Audemer , he carried the walls that night , all but one tower which held out till the 6th . Then , on 7 July , with much booty and many prisoners , he set out for home . For with John's huge army only a dozen miles away he ...
Page 288
... taken completely by surprise . When he realised that all that he and his father had fought for had been in vain he swore a mighty oath . ' We shall willingly , ' he said , ' attend on the appointed day at Paris since the King of France ...
... taken completely by surprise . When he realised that all that he and his father had fought for had been in vain he swore a mighty oath . ' We shall willingly , ' he said , ' attend on the appointed day at Paris since the King of France ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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