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 121
... magnates , despairing of help , surrendered their castles to the King's officials and his loyal English fyrdmen . It was the last time that the higher Norman nobility dared to challenge the joint forces of Crown and Law . Henceforward ...
... magnates , despairing of help , surrendered their castles to the King's officials and his loyal English fyrdmen . It was the last time that the higher Norman nobility dared to challenge the joint forces of Crown and Law . Henceforward ...
Page 149
... magnates to which his father in times of need had had resource for ' colloquy and treating ' and to which in his later years both he and Edward , as his deputy , had increasingly referred the vast mass of petitions and appeals to the ...
... magnates to which his father in times of need had had resource for ' colloquy and treating ' and to which in his later years both he and Edward , as his deputy , had increasingly referred the vast mass of petitions and appeals to the ...
Page 344
... magnates had now gone to the latter . Richard was once again powerless and at their mercy . He felt the humiliation keenly . Yet his minority was nearing its close and , for all their ingrained distrust of him , Gloucester and Arundel ...
... magnates had now gone to the latter . Richard was once again powerless and at their mercy . He felt the humiliation keenly . Yet his minority was nearing its close and , for all their ingrained distrust of him , Gloucester and Arundel ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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