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 88
... royal commands restoring posses- sion to any freeman forcibly dispossessed of his land . They offered these for sale to all , Norman and English alike , whose tenures were free from servile services : to all , that is ' free to go with ...
... royal commands restoring posses- sion to any freeman forcibly dispossessed of his land . They offered these for sale to all , Norman and English alike , whose tenures were free from servile services : to all , that is ' free to go with ...
Page 141
... royal courts by permitting them to plead by attorney , and had sought to protect merchants from royal purveyors , and widows and minors from grasping overlords . Now , at a time of widespread hardship and discontent , when a succession ...
... royal courts by permitting them to plead by attorney , and had sought to protect merchants from royal purveyors , and widows and minors from grasping overlords . Now , at a time of widespread hardship and discontent , when a succession ...
Page 149
... royal officials and judges , feudal tenants - in - chief , prelates and 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 ...
... royal officials and judges , feudal tenants - in - chief , prelates and 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 ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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