Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... lord's hall was merely a gabled log - barn , with stag - horns and rude arms on its unplastered walls , a sunk open ... lords , heirs of the warriors who had led them to conquest and who , perhaps , boasted descent from Woden , god of ...
... lord's hall was merely a gabled log - barn , with stag - horns and rude arms on its unplastered walls , a sunk open ... lords , heirs of the warriors who had led them to conquest and who , perhaps , boasted descent from Woden , god of ...
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... lord's mill , oven and brewery - ' suit of mill ' and ' oven ' , as they were called - which not only enriched the lord , but offered opportunities for every kind of chicanery and imposition by those to whom the latter leased his rights ...
... lord's mill , oven and brewery - ' suit of mill ' and ' oven ' , as they were called - which not only enriched the lord , but offered opportunities for every kind of chicanery and imposition by those to whom the latter leased his rights ...
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... lords for services which they regarded as unjust and oppressive . It was against the lord's officers and agents that the peasant's indignation was , in particular , directed . From the receivers and bailiffs who wrung from him the ...
... lords for services which they regarded as unjust and oppressive . It was against the lord's officers and agents that the peasant's indignation was , in particular , directed . From the receivers and bailiffs who wrung from him the ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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