Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... wrote the history of England for their time . J. R. Green wrote it for our great grandfathers ' , and G. M. Trevel- yan for our fathers ' . Trying to write it for mine , I have presented it in a new and different form . For my History ...
... wrote the history of England for their time . J. R. Green wrote it for our great grandfathers ' , and G. M. Trevel- yan for our fathers ' . Trying to write it for mine , I have presented it in a new and different form . For my History ...
Page 71
... wrote six centuries later , ' betook themselves to patience which taught many a noble hand to work , foot to travel , tongue to entreat . ' Humbler folk were left in possession of their holdings ; Norman and English alike would have ...
... wrote six centuries later , ' betook themselves to patience which taught many a noble hand to work , foot to travel , tongue to entreat . ' Humbler folk were left in possession of their holdings ; Norman and English alike would have ...
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... wrote to Edward , ' under the imperium of the King of England has its own customs and laws according to the mode and use of their respective parts where they are situated , such as the Gascons in Gascony , the Scots in Scotland , the ...
... wrote to Edward , ' under the imperium of the King of England has its own customs and laws according to the mode and use of their respective parts where they are situated , such as the Gascons in Gascony , the Scots in Scotland , the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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