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 381
... village street and flanked by heaps of manure - the peasant's principal wealth - were mere rectangular - shaped shacks of timber - framing , filled in with wattle , turf and mud and thatched with straw or reeds . They contained usually ...
... village street and flanked by heaps of manure - the peasant's principal wealth - were mere rectangular - shaped shacks of timber - framing , filled in with wattle , turf and mud and thatched with straw or reeds . They contained usually ...
Page 385
... village we have the testimony of Chaucer . For when , in his cavalcade of worldly pilgrims , lay and ecclesiastic , he reached the humble village priest , that cynical , tolerant but scrupulously honest observer of the fourteenth ...
... village we have the testimony of Chaucer . For when , in his cavalcade of worldly pilgrims , lay and ecclesiastic , he reached the humble village priest , that cynical , tolerant but scrupulously honest observer of the fourteenth ...
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... village forbears , solemnly beat the young fry over the boundary - stones to make them remember where they stood . The sanitary arrangements of the borough also derived from the village . Such drains as it had , ran down the unpaved or ...
... village forbears , solemnly beat the young fry over the boundary - stones to make them remember where they stood . The sanitary arrangements of the borough also derived from the village . Such drains as it had , ran down the unpaved or ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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