The Barons' War; Including the Battles of Lewes and EveshamBell and Daldy, 1871 - 390 pages |
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... royal prerogative , and of popular control , there met at length in active hostility , after the fruitless trial , for many years , of more pacific means . There would have been no need to revive this remote subject , which , as Drayton ...
... royal prerogative , and of popular control , there met at length in active hostility , after the fruitless trial , for many years , of more pacific means . There would have been no need to revive this remote subject , which , as Drayton ...
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... royal authority , they readily combined with them in the coercion of their King . They had grievances too of their own , heavy burthens repug- nant to their feelings , arising from their feudal tenures , which , on every fresh occasion ...
... royal authority , they readily combined with them in the coercion of their King . They had grievances too of their own , heavy burthens repug- nant to their feelings , arising from their feudal tenures , which , on every fresh occasion ...
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... royal castles committed to foreigners , 200 of whom came over on his invitation . The King was in vain warned that , to avoid the shipwreck of his kingdom , he must shun stones and rocks , in allusion to the names of Pierre de Roches ...
... royal castles committed to foreigners , 200 of whom came over on his invitation . The King was in vain warned that , to avoid the shipwreck of his kingdom , he must shun stones and rocks , in allusion to the names of Pierre de Roches ...
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... royal favour and dis- grace as his predecessor , dying , in 1251 , concealed in the Abbey of Leicester , where he had taken refuge . It would appear that the King had proposed to himself perpetual continence , and was much disturbed by ...
... royal favour and dis- grace as his predecessor , dying , in 1251 , concealed in the Abbey of Leicester , where he had taken refuge . It would appear that the King had proposed to himself perpetual continence , and was much disturbed by ...
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... royal compulsion , chosen Arch- bishop of Canterbury , although so reluctant was the chapter to elect him , that many of its members abandoned their stalls in disgust , and became Carthusian monks . His person was tall and elegant , but ...
... royal compulsion , chosen Arch- bishop of Canterbury , although so reluctant was the chapter to elect him , that many of its members abandoned their stalls in disgust , and became Carthusian monks . His person was tall and elegant , but ...
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