History of the English People, Volumen2Useful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 |
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... have been to undo the change which had been silently brought about , and to imitate the policy of the con- temporary sovereigns of France by choosing as his ministers men of an inferior position , wholly depen- dent EDWARD THE SECOND . 15.
... have been to undo the change which had been silently brought about , and to imitate the policy of the con- temporary sovereigns of France by choosing as his ministers men of an inferior position , wholly depen- dent EDWARD THE SECOND . 15.
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... brought the king and his parliament together in the spring of 1309. It was only by conceding the rights which his father had sought to establish of imposing import duties on the merchants by their own assent that he procured a subsidy ...
... brought the king and his parliament together in the spring of 1309. It was only by conceding the rights which his father had sought to establish of imposing import duties on the merchants by their own assent that he procured a subsidy ...
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... brought face to face as they had been brought at Falkirk , for Robert , like Wallace , drew up his forces in hollow squares or circles of spearmen . The English were dispirited at the very outset by the failure of an attempt to relieve ...
... brought face to face as they had been brought at Falkirk , for Robert , like Wallace , drew up his forces in hollow squares or circles of spearmen . The English were dispirited at the very outset by the failure of an attempt to relieve ...
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... brought shame on England such as it had never known . At last Bruce's capture of Berwick in the spring of 1318 forced the king to give way . The ordinances were formally accepted , an amnesty granted , and a small number of peers ...
... brought shame on England such as it had never known . At last Bruce's capture of Berwick in the spring of 1318 forced the king to give way . The ordinances were formally accepted , an amnesty granted , and a small number of peers ...
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... brought captive before Edward at Pontefract , was tried and condemned to death as a traitor . " Have mercy on me , King of Heaven , " cried Lancaster , as , mounted on a gray pony without a bridle , he was hurried to execution , " for ...
... brought captive before Edward at Pontefract , was tried and condemned to death as a traitor . " Have mercy on me , King of Heaven , " cried Lancaster , as , mounted on a gray pony without a bridle , he was hurried to execution , " for ...
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Página 280 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and thereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 422 - Wherefore, gracious king, remember yourself, have pity upon your soul ; and think that the day is even at hand, when you shall give account of your office, and of the blood that hath been shed with your sword.
Página 368 - He is a prince of most royal courage ; rather than miss any part of his will, he will endanger one half of his kingdom; and I do assure you, I have often kneeled before him, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite and could not prevail.
Página 383 - I had heard mass in Our Lady's Church, which is the fairest, the most gorgeous and curious church of building in all the city...
Página 345 - The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my " good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws " broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with
Página 328 - ... and when I had advised me in this said book, I deliberated, and concluded to translate it into English, and forthwith took a pen and ink, and wrote a leaf or twain, which I oversaw again, to correct it; and when I saw the fair and strange terms therein, I doubted that it should not please some gentlemen, which late blamed me, saying, that in my translations, I had...
Página 433 - I beseech you to pity me, a woman and a stranger, without an assured friend and without an indifferent counsellor. I take God to witness that I have always been to you a true and loyal wife, that I have made it my constant duty to seek your pleasure, that I have loved all whom you loved, whether I have reason or not, whether they are friends to me or foes.
Página 459 - Lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia, and shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the imperial crown of this realm as well the title and style thereof, as all honours, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities, to the said dignity of Supreme Head of the same Church belonging and appertaining...
Página 328 - And some honest and great clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find; and thus between plain, rude and curious I stand abashed.
Página 385 - In the institution of the weal public this end is only and chiefly pretended and minded that what time may possibly be spared from the necessary occupations and affairs of the commonwealth, all that the citizens should withdraw from bodily service to the free liberty of the mind and garnishing of the same. For herein they conceive the felicity of this life to consist.