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 152
... justice to his subjects . His ideal and that of his age was of a delicately poised balance between conflicting claims , one in which every man's right to his own could be ascertained , weighed and enforced . For to the medieval mind ...
... justice to his subjects . His ideal and that of his age was of a delicately poised balance between conflicting claims , one in which every man's right to his own could be ascertained , weighed and enforced . For to the medieval mind ...
Page 153
... justice a more realisable commodity in England than in any other land . To offer relief to the subject and strict and impartial justice to all in their degree , to ensure that under the Crown both the obligations and rights of a feudal ...
... justice a more realisable commodity in England than in any other land . To offer relief to the subject and strict and impartial justice to all in their degree , to ensure that under the Crown both the obligations and rights of a feudal ...
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... justice , ordered the record to be brought before the King's Bench at Newcastle where he was keeping the Christmas feast . When Balliol reminded him of his undertaking at Brigham that no Scottish subject should be made to plead in any ...
... justice , ordered the record to be brought before the King's Bench at Newcastle where he was keeping the Christmas feast . When Balliol reminded him of his undertaking at Brigham that no Scottish subject should be made to plead in any ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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