Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... King , who saw in them his only hope of obtaining the aid he needed . They were of a most drastic kind . An ad hoc Council of Fifteen was to ' have the power of advising the King in good faith concerning the government of the kingdom ...
... King , who saw in them his only hope of obtaining the aid he needed . They were of a most drastic kind . An ad hoc Council of Fifteen was to ' have the power of advising the King in good faith concerning the government of the kingdom ...
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... King's mind . Having been an Oxford doctor of law , a Chancery clerk and dean of the Court of Arches , he knew how ... King of England , good or bad , could govern without resort to established law and to those who could speak for the ...
... King's mind . Having been an Oxford doctor of law , a Chancery clerk and dean of the Court of Arches , he knew how ... King of England , good or bad , could govern without resort to established law and to those who could speak for the ...
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... King , only to return after a few weeks to England , its stores exhausted and its leaders quarrelling violently . For almost a generation , during the dotage of Edward III and the minority of his grandson , England had been without a ...
... King , only to return after a few weeks to England , its stores exhausted and its leaders quarrelling violently . For almost a generation , during the dotage of Edward III and the minority of his grandson , England had been without a ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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