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 377
... village halimote , which dealt with cases of trespass , neglect of manorial duties and offences against the village peace , and which twice a year became a police - court to try crimes short of felony presented by a jury , had its ...
... village halimote , which dealt with cases of trespass , neglect of manorial duties and offences against the village peace , and which twice a year became a police - court to try crimes short of felony presented by a jury , had its ...
Page 379
... village , but of the nation . As part of this policy the townships along the royal highways were also ordered , on pain of indictment before the justices on eyre , to cut back the brushwood on either side of the road to a distance of ...
... village , but of the nation . As part of this policy the townships along the royal highways were also ordered , on pain of indictment before the justices on eyre , to cut back the brushwood on either side of the road to a distance of ...
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... village we have the testimony of Chaucer . For when , in his cavalcade of worldly pilgrims , lay and ecclesiastic , he reached the humble village priest , that cynical , tolerant but scrupulously honest observer of the fourteenth ...
... village we have the testimony of Chaucer . For when , in his cavalcade of worldly pilgrims , lay and ecclesiastic , he reached the humble village priest , that cynical , tolerant but scrupulously honest observer of the fourteenth ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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