Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of Christendom , it became established principle that no man need answer for his freehold ...
... land - the wealth on which the military and political organisation of a feudal State depended . In England , alone among the medieval kingdoms of Christendom , it became established principle that no man need answer for his freehold ...
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... land , and , because it belongeth to us , for that we are , all unworthy though we be , primate of all England and ... land and the great Charter , the peers and other people of the land and put some to shameful death and of others he ...
... land , and , because it belongeth to us , for that we are , all unworthy though we be , primate of all England and ... land and the great Charter , the peers and other people of the land and put some to shameful death and of others he ...
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... land . You make suit , quite unfitting and against the law of the land , which you are bound by the oath taken at your coronation to keep and maintain , and con- trary to the great Charter . ' The only place for judging such charges as ...
... land . You make suit , quite unfitting and against the law of the land , which you are bound by the oath taken at your coronation to keep and maintain , and con- trary to the great Charter . ' The only place for judging such charges as ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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