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... NORMAN KINGS . 1085-1154 135 CHAPTER III . HENRY THE SECOND . 1154-1189 161 CHAPTER IV . 183 THE ANGEVIN KINGS . 1189-1204 BOOK III . THE CHARTER . 1204-1291 . JOHN . 1214-1216 CHAPTER I. 195 CHAPTER II . HENRY THE THIRD . 1216-1232 ...
... NORMAN KINGS . 1085-1154 135 CHAPTER III . HENRY THE SECOND . 1154-1189 161 CHAPTER IV . 183 THE ANGEVIN KINGS . 1189-1204 BOOK III . THE CHARTER . 1204-1291 . JOHN . 1214-1216 CHAPTER I. 195 CHAPTER II . HENRY THE THIRD . 1216-1232 ...
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... Norman Conquest , Simeon of Durham is useful for northern matters , and William of Malmesbury worthy of note for his remark- able combination of Norman and English feeling . Domesday Book is of course invaluable for the Norman ...
... Norman Conquest , Simeon of Durham is useful for northern matters , and William of Malmesbury worthy of note for his remark- able combination of Norman and English feeling . Domesday Book is of course invaluable for the Norman ...
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... Norman in- vasion ; and Cormac's " Glossary , " attributed to the tenth century and certainly an early work , from which much may be gleaned of legal and social details , and something of the pagan religion of Ireland . CHAPTER I. THE ...
... Norman in- vasion ; and Cormac's " Glossary , " attributed to the tenth century and certainly an early work , from which much may be gleaned of legal and social details , and something of the pagan religion of Ireland . CHAPTER I. THE ...
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... Norman Con- queror ; and the fall of this fortress of Anderida in 491 established the kingdom of the South - Saxons . " Elle and Cissa beset Anderida , " so ran the pitiless record of the conquerors , " and slew all that were therein ...
... Norman Con- queror ; and the fall of this fortress of Anderida in 491 established the kingdom of the South - Saxons . " Elle and Cissa beset Anderida , " so ran the pitiless record of the conquerors , " and slew all that were therein ...
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... Norman . It was a struggle which England shared with the rest of the west- ern world , but its issue here was a peculiar one . In other countries feudalism won an easy victory over the central government . In England alone the monarchy ...
... Norman . It was a struggle which England shared with the rest of the west- ern world , but its issue here was a peculiar one . In other countries feudalism won an easy victory over the central government . In England alone the monarchy ...
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abbey Ælfred Angevin Archbishop army attack baronage barons became Bishop borough Britain broke brought Calais castles CHAP Charter Chronicle Church claim clergy common Conqueror conquest court Crown death Duke Duke of Burgundy Ealdorman Earl ecclesiastical Edward the Third England English Englishmen fell feudal followed forced foreign France French fresh Gascony gathered gave Gloucester ground Guienne hands head held Hengest Henry the Second Henry's House of Lancaster John John of Gaunt justice Justiciar King King's kingdom knights labour Lancaster land Lollard London lord ment Mercia monks nobles Norman Normandy North Northmen Northumbria once Oxford Papal Parliament passed peace Peasant Revolt Philip political Pope prelates Prince realm refused reign Roman Rome rose roused royal Council Scotland scutage shire Simon Statute strife struggle summoned temper thegns throne town victory villeins Wales Welsh Wessex William Wyclif
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Página 247 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Página 375 - Robert of Avesbury, which closes in 1356. A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden. At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals which had been carried on in the Abbey of St. Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the "Historia Anglicana" which bears his name, a compilation whose history may be found in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S.
Página 440 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labor, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Página 20 - Foes are they," sang a Roman poet of the time, "fierce beyond other foes, and cunning as they are fierce; the sea is their school of war, and the storm their friend; they are sea-wolves that live on the pillage of the world.
Página 503 - So that now, the year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English.
Página 509 - Chaucer has received his training from war, courts, business, travel — a training not of books but of life. And it is life that he loves — the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
Página 155 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable...
Página 67 - First among English scholars, first among English theologians, first among English historians, it is in the monk of Jarrow that English literature strikes its roots. In the six hundred scholars who gathered round him for instruction he is the father of our national education.
Página 262 - ... are filled up. The professed object of the work is to urge the necessity of a reform in the mode of philosophizing, to set forth the reasons why knowledge had not made a greater progress, to draw back attention to the sources of knowledge which had been unwisely neglected, to discover other sources which were yet almost untouched, and to animate men in the undertaking, by a prospect of the vast advantages which it offered.