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... for his service that he should be judged only by the lord he served . Other meed was found in grants of public land which made them a local nobility , no longer bound to actual 36 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . [ BOOK.
... for his service that he should be judged only by the lord he served . Other meed was found in grants of public land which made them a local nobility , no longer bound to actual 36 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . [ BOOK.
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... grant it fled from the realm . Godwine's influence secured his pardon , but on his very return to seek it Swegen murdered his cousin Beorn who had opposed the reconciliation and again fled to Flanders . A storm of national indignation ...
... grant it fled from the realm . Godwine's influence secured his pardon , but on his very return to seek it Swegen murdered his cousin Beorn who had opposed the reconciliation and again fled to Flanders . A storm of national indignation ...
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... grant to his more powerful followers . Two hundred manors in Kent with more than an equal number elsewhere rewarded the services of his brother Odo , and grants almost as large fell to William's counsellors Fitz - Osbern and Montgomery ...
... grant to his more powerful followers . Two hundred manors in Kent with more than an equal number elsewhere rewarded the services of his brother Odo , and grants almost as large fell to William's counsellors Fitz - Osbern and Montgomery ...
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... grant or renewal of every privilege or charter . A new source of revenue was found in the Jewish traders , many of whom followed William from Normandy , and who were glad to pay freely for the royal protection which enabled them to ...
... grant or renewal of every privilege or charter . A new source of revenue was found in the Jewish traders , many of whom followed William from Normandy , and who were glad to pay freely for the royal protection which enabled them to ...
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... grant of a charter , and his marriage with Matilda , mark the new relation which this support brought about between the people and their King . Henry's Charter is important , not merely as a direct precedent for the Great Charter of ...
... grant of a charter , and his marriage with Matilda , mark the new relation which this support brought about between the people and their King . Henry's Charter is important , not merely as a direct precedent for the Great Charter of ...
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Página 243 - 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 434 - If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags.
Página 149 - Baron and freeman gathered at York round Archbishop Thurstan and marched to the field of Northallerton to await the foe. The sacred banners of St. Cuthbert of Durham, St. Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfred of Ripon hung from a pole fixed in a four-wheeled car which stood in the centre of the host.
Página 371 - At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals that 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 is given in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S. Albani
Página 503 - 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 281 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 434 - Good people,' cried the preacher, 'things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we?
Página 63 - 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 561 - Duke himself, he was forced to move at last by efforts to indict him as a traitor in Ireland itself. Crossing at Michaelmas to Wales in spite of the efforts to arrest him, he gathered four thousand men on his estates and marched upon London. No serious effort was made to prevent his approach to the King; and Henry found himself helpless to resist his demand of a Parliament and of the admission of new councillors to the royal council-board. Parliament met in November, and a bitter strife between York...
Página 432 - I could not believe," said Petrarch of this time, "that this was the same France which I had seen so rich and flourishing. Nothing presented itself to my eyes but a fearful solitude, an utter poverty, land uncultivated, houses in ruins. Even the neighbourhood of Paris showed everywhere marks of desolation and conflagration. The streets are deserted, the roads overgrown with weeds, the whole is a vast solitude.