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 173
... peace for the rest of his days.1 It was this Prince's grandson , Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , who was now , after many vicissitudes , lord of Gwynedd . He , too , had taken advantage of England's troubles under Henry III to impose his ...
... peace for the rest of his days.1 It was this Prince's grandson , Llywelyn ap Gruffydd , who was now , after many vicissitudes , lord of Gwynedd . He , too , had taken advantage of England's troubles under Henry III to impose his ...
Page 279
... peace to his people , ' was how Edward's epitaph in the abbey was to describe him , and it was thus that his subjects saw him during his life . There had been times when the greatest threat to an English sovereign's authority and his ...
... peace to his people , ' was how Edward's epitaph in the abbey was to describe him , and it was thus that his subjects saw him during his life . There had been times when the greatest threat to an English sovereign's authority and his ...
Page 280
... peace was lost , and the question of ultimate sovereignty was left unsolved to bedevil future Anglo - French relations . Without it , neither the transfers of territory nor the huge ransom instalments were of any permanent use to ...
... peace was lost , and the question of ultimate sovereignty was left unsolved to bedevil future Anglo - French relations . Without it , neither the transfers of territory nor the huge ransom instalments were of any permanent use to ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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