Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... fields , the church bells were silent , and everywhere corpses were flung , blackened and stinking , into hastily dug pits . - The plague reached London at the beginning of November - ' about the feast of All Hallows ' . It took the ...
... fields , the church bells were silent , and everywhere corpses were flung , blackened and stinking , into hastily dug pits . - The plague reached London at the beginning of November - ' about the feast of All Hallows ' . It took the ...
Page 380
... field , according to the size of his holding . In some villages the lord's land , called the demesne , and sometimes the parson's glebe land , were enclosed ; in others they were scattered about the open fields , where their cultivation ...
... field , according to the size of his holding . In some villages the lord's land , called the demesne , and sometimes the parson's glebe land , were enclosed ; in others they were scattered about the open fields , where their cultivation ...
Page 383
... fields , with bare trees and grey , colourless skies , and the nights of shivering in draughty hovels , were broken by the sweet wintry festival of Christ's birth , with its bright fires , lighted win- dows and good fare . It came just ...
... fields , with bare trees and grey , colourless skies , and the nights of shivering in draughty hovels , were broken by the sweet wintry festival of Christ's birth , with its bright fires , lighted win- dows and good fare . It came just ...
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