Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... officers trained in regular habits of routine , business and accountancy and , still more important , in ideals of public service . The monastic officers were called ' obedientiaries ' ; they command- ed because they obeyed . Nowhere ...
... officers trained in regular habits of routine , business and accountancy and , still more important , in ideals of public service . The monastic officers were called ' obedientiaries ' ; they command- ed because they obeyed . Nowhere ...
Page 157
... officers to county coroners , justices of assize , com- missioners of array and taxes , knights of the shire , and now con- servators or , as they became in the next century , justices of the peace . In the reign of Edward's grandson ...
... officers to county coroners , justices of assize , com- missioners of array and taxes , knights of the shire , and now con- servators or , as they became in the next century , justices of the peace . In the reign of Edward's grandson ...
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... officers . If , thanks to her strong line of kings , the law and its subtle complex processes had taken the place of the sword , it was employed , by Crown and subject alike , with the ruthlessness of the battlefield . And it was often ...
... officers . If , thanks to her strong line of kings , the law and its subtle complex processes had taken the place of the sword , it was employed , by Crown and subject alike , with the ruthlessness of the battlefield . And it was often ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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