Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... thousand eels . Chester sent its earldorman a thousand salmon a year , and Petersham in Surrey a thousand lampreys . - The heart of England's culture was no longer Northumbria now a wasted and depopulated province - but Wessex . Here ...
... thousand eels . Chester sent its earldorman a thousand salmon a year , and Petersham in Surrey a thousand lampreys . - The heart of England's culture was no longer Northumbria now a wasted and depopulated province - but Wessex . Here ...
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... thousand and three thousand knights and nearly twenty thousand archers and spear- men . On the 17th they set out , advancing up Lauderdale to Edin- burgh and the Forth , while their supplies followed by sea to Leith . This time there ...
... thousand and three thousand knights and nearly twenty thousand archers and spear- men . On the 17th they set out , advancing up Lauderdale to Edin- burgh and the Forth , while their supplies followed by sea to Leith . This time there ...
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... thousand . Probably one in every fifty of the population was a cleric . The poll - tax returns of 1381 listed more than twenty - nine thousand inferior clergy in England , exclusive of friars . The English Church or Ecclesia Anglicana ...
... thousand . Probably one in every fifty of the population was a cleric . The poll - tax returns of 1381 listed more than twenty - nine thousand inferior clergy in England , exclusive of friars . The English Church or Ecclesia Anglicana ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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