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 237
... once gathered four hundred men - at - arms and 1 At a time when literacy was only beginning to reach the aristocratic laity Henry was remarkable for writing two works of devotion , in one of which , Mercy Gramercy , he set down all the ...
... once gathered four hundred men - at - arms and 1 At a time when literacy was only beginning to reach the aristocratic laity Henry was remarkable for writing two works of devotion , in one of which , Mercy Gramercy , he set down all the ...
Page 258
... once established in the soil , the plague remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another , at least once in a generation . For three hundred years - a period of time ...
... once established in the soil , the plague remained endemic . Dormant for perhaps a dozen years it would suddenly flare up , first in one city , then in another , at least once in a generation . For three hundred years - a period of time ...
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... once , thousands might be slain as they slept . But the earl of Salisbury , who had fought at Crécy and Poitiers , thought otherwise . Once fighting began in the narrow streets and lanes , the rebels ' immense superiority in numbers ...
... once , thousands might be slain as they slept . But the earl of Salisbury , who had fought at Crécy and Poitiers , thought otherwise . Once fighting began in the narrow streets and lanes , the rebels ' immense superiority in numbers ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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