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 282
... raised the younger son of a Breton hedge - squire to the command of France's armies . He loved the company of scholars and artists and strove to make his court and Paris once more the centre and arbiter of western civilization ...
... raised the younger son of a Breton hedge - squire to the command of France's armies . He loved the company of scholars and artists and strove to make his court and Paris once more the centre and arbiter of western civilization ...
Page 405
... raise money from the trade . The first was to requisition part of the season's crop and , treating it as a forced ... raised and of the royal officers who administered it . The means by which the wool tax was collected was the staple ...
... raise money from the trade . The first was to requisition part of the season's crop and , treating it as a forced ... raised and of the royal officers who administered it . The means by which the wool tax was collected was the staple ...
Page 431
... raised by the merchant community and nobility . One indignant preacher spoke of ' great lords and ladies that cometh to holy church in rich and noble apparel of gold and silver , pearls and precious stones and other worldly , worshipful ...
... raised by the merchant community and nobility . One indignant preacher spoke of ' great lords and ladies that cometh to holy church in rich and noble apparel of gold and silver , pearls and precious stones and other worldly , worshipful ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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