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 63
... side by side in the Witan and the provincial and shire courts . But to the radically minded Normans , England was a land without discipline ; where the enthusiasm of saints and scholars had become lost in a sluggish stream of petty ...
... side by side in the Witan and the provincial and shire courts . But to the radically minded Normans , England was a land without discipline ; where the enthusiasm of saints and scholars had become lost in a sluggish stream of petty ...
Page 76
... side by side with Anglo- Norman knights , overthrew the baronage of the duchy and annexed it to the English crown . They were trained by the King himself , who showed them how to repel cavalry . Though he was as grasping as his father ...
... side by side with Anglo- Norman knights , overthrew the baronage of the duchy and annexed it to the English crown . They were trained by the King himself , who showed them how to repel cavalry . Though he was as grasping as his father ...
Page 279
... side the great Marcher house of Clare . Shortly after the Treaty of Brétigny the young prince was sent to govern Ireland with the dual object of securing the profits of his wife's vast but largely illusory inheritance and of restoring ...
... side the great Marcher house of Clare . Shortly after the Treaty of Brétigny the young prince was sent to govern Ireland with the dual object of securing the profits of his wife's vast but largely illusory inheritance and of restoring ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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