History of the English People, Volumen2Useful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 |
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... rising ground flanked by a little brook , the Bannockburn , which gave its name to the engagement . The battle took place on the 24th of June , 1314. Again two systems of warfare were brought face to face as they had been brought at ...
... rising ground flanked by a little brook , the Bannockburn , which gave its name to the engagement . The battle took place on the 24th of June , 1314. Again two systems of warfare were brought face to face as they had been brought at ...
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... rising under Bruce had been backed by French aid as well as by a revival of the old quarrel over Guienne , and on the accession of Charles the Fourth in 1322 a demand of homage for Ponthieu and Gas- cony called Edward over sea . But the ...
... rising under Bruce had been backed by French aid as well as by a revival of the old quarrel over Guienne , and on the accession of Charles the Fourth in 1322 a demand of homage for Ponthieu and Gas- cony called Edward over sea . But the ...
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... Rising . 313. Young as he was , and he had only reached his eighteenth year , Edward at once assumed the control of affairs . His first care was to restore good order throughout the country , which under the late government had fallen ...
... Rising . 313. Young as he was , and he had only reached his eighteenth year , Edward at once assumed the control of affairs . His first care was to restore good order throughout the country , which under the late government had fallen ...
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... rising between the age of Henry the Second and that of Edward the Third . The social changes on which we have already dwelt , the facilities given to alienation and the subdivision of lands , the transition of the serf into a copyholder ...
... rising between the age of Henry the Second and that of Edward the Third . The social changes on which we have already dwelt , the facilities given to alienation and the subdivision of lands , the transition of the serf into a copyholder ...
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... rising throughout Normandy . Edward at once dispatched troops under the Duke of Lancaster to its support . But the insurgents were soon forced to fall back . Conscious of the danger to which an English occupation of Normandy would ...
... rising throughout Normandy . Edward at once dispatched troops under the Duke of Lancaster to its support . But the insurgents were soon forced to fall back . Conscious of the danger to which an English occupation of Normandy would ...
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alliance Anne Boleyn Archbishop Arundel army attack baronage barons bishops Black Death blow Brittany broke brought Burgundy Calais Charles church claim clergy close commons court Cromwell crown danger death demand Duke Duke of Burgundy Earl Edward the Third emperor England English Erasmus estates Flanders force France French king fresh gathered gave Guienne hands head held Henry's house of Lancaster house of York Ireland John of Gaunt king's knights labor Lancastrian land learning Lewis lish Lollard Lollardry London lords Margaret marriage master ment minister monarchy nobles Normandy once papacy papal parlia parliament passed peace Philip political pope prelates prince prisoner realm reform reign religious revolt Richard Rome roused royal council ruin Scotland seemed statute statute of laborers strife struggle summoned temper throne tion town treaty truce victory villeins Warwick Wolsey Wolsey's Wycliffe York Yorkist young king
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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.