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 56
... claim to office , had grown beyond the control of any ordinary ruler . His was the disintegrating force of power without responsibility . He was neither a chieftain bound by tribal ties nor a consecrated king with obligations to his ...
... claim to office , had grown beyond the control of any ordinary ruler . His was the disintegrating force of power without responsibility . He was neither a chieftain bound by tribal ties nor a consecrated king with obligations to his ...
Page 103
... claim ' benefit of clergy ' and so escape subjection to the criminal and civil law of the land . If any servant of the Church - even a poor church - sweeper or wandering ragamuffin student - committed a murder , rape or burglary , the ...
... claim ' benefit of clergy ' and so escape subjection to the criminal and civil law of the land . If any servant of the Church - even a poor church - sweeper or wandering ragamuffin student - committed a murder , rape or burglary , the ...
Page 193
... claims were determined . He reappointed the regents , added an Englishman to their number and proclaimed his peace ... claim were the heads of the three Anglo - Scottish baronial families of Balliol , Bruce and Comyn . By the autumn of ...
... claims were determined . He reappointed the regents , added an Englishman to their number and proclaimed his peace ... claim were the heads of the three Anglo - Scottish baronial families of Balliol , Bruce and Comyn . By the autumn of ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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