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 183
... Four Cantrefs were English , not Welsh . The Welsh did not like Englishmen ; they had been accustomed from time immemorial , not to nationhood , but to governing themselves . Most of them preferred to be ruled by an unjust fellow ...
... Four Cantrefs were English , not Welsh . The Welsh did not like Englishmen ; they had been accustomed from time immemorial , not to nationhood , but to governing themselves . Most of them preferred to be ruled by an unjust fellow ...
Page 252
... four years after his victory at Sluys , he appears standing in a ship crowned with sword in hand . In October 1347 , he returned to England . For two dazzling years victory had crowned her every effort : a few thousand of her sons ...
... four years after his victory at Sluys , he appears standing in a ship crowned with sword in hand . In October 1347 , he returned to England . For two dazzling years victory had crowned her every effort : a few thousand of her sons ...
Page 279
... four surviving younger sons , the eldest , Lionel of Antwerp , had been betrothed to the only child of the earl of Ulster , William de Burgh , who also represented on the distaff side the great Marcher house of Clare . Shortly after the ...
... four surviving younger sons , the eldest , Lionel of Antwerp , had been betrothed to the only child of the earl of Ulster , William de Burgh , who also represented on the distaff side the great Marcher house of Clare . Shortly after the ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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