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 256
... carried off its victims in a few hours . During that autumn the plague struck down southern shire after shire . Dorset and its adjoining counties suffered terribly ; Poole was so depopulated that it did not recover for more than a ...
... carried off its victims in a few hours . During that autumn the plague struck down southern shire after shire . Dorset and its adjoining counties suffered terribly ; Poole was so depopulated that it did not recover for more than a ...
Page 258
... carried off about one in three of the population . What is certain is that , once established in the soil , the plague remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another ...
... carried off about one in three of the population . What is certain is that , once established in the soil , the plague remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another ...
Page 310
... carried their messages from parish to parish . Everywhere government agents were attacked , their houses plundered and their records and papers thrown into courtyard or street and burnt . The admiral of the Essex coast , Edmund de la ...
... carried their messages from parish to parish . Everywhere government agents were attacked , their houses plundered and their records and papers thrown into courtyard or street and burnt . The admiral of the Essex coast , Edmund de la ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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