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Abbey accession afterwards Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon Archbishop army ascended the throne Baliol barons battle battle of Hastings began to reign Bretwalda Britain British Britons brother Bruce Canterbury Canute castles CHAPTER chief Christianity church claims coast coronation court crown Danes Danish daughter David death defeated died Duke of Normandy Duke of York Earl Edgar Edgar Atheling Edmund Edmund Ironside Edward IV Edward the Confessor Egbert enemies English Ethelbert Ethelred father France Give an account Gloucester Godwin Hardicanute Harold head Henry Henry II Henry's Personal houses insurrection invaded England invasion Ireland John John Baliol Julius Cæsar King's kingdom knights Lancaster land London Malcolm Margaret married Matilda monarch murdered nobles Norman Personal History Picts Plantagenet possession Prince prisoner Queen rebellion restored returned Richard Richard II Robert Roman royal Rufus Saxons Scotland Scots Scottish slain Stephen succeeded surnamed Sweyn took Wales Warwick William Winchester Witenagemote young
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Сторінка 68 - 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, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Сторінка 68 - ... land tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter: for there was none in the land. Wretched men died of hunger ; some went seeking alms who at one while were rich men ; some fled out of the land.
Сторінка 69 - If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate. The earth bare no corn; you might as well have tilled the sea, for the land was all ruined by such deeds, and it was said openly that Christ and his saints slept.
Сторінка 38 - I could not in any way hold : my royalty is not my own ; I could not lay it down against the will of the country, nor can I against the will of the country take a foreign wife. As for my sister, whom the Duke claims that he may marry her to one of his chiefs, she has died within the year ; would he have me send her corpse...
Сторінка 15 - how is it possible that a people possessed of such magnificence at home, could envy me a humble cottage in Britain ?" The emperor was affected by the British hero's misfortunes, and won by his address.
Сторінка 88 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Сторінка 134 - His first wife was Mary de Bohun, daughter of the Earl of Hereford; his second, Joanna, daughter of the King of Navarre, and widow of the Duke of Bretagne.
Сторінка 68 - ... man seated in a town, or its lands tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich. Some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these.
Сторінка 68 - They put them into dungeons wherein were adders, and snakes, and toads, and thus wore them out. Some they put into a...
Сторінка 41 - Harold's army was posted; and the high altar of the abbey stood on the very spot where Harold's own standard was planted during the fight, and where the carnage was the thickest. Immediately after his victory, William vowed to build an abbey on the site ; and a fair and stately pile soon rose there, where for many ages the monks prayed and said masses for the souls of those who were slain in the battle, whence the abbey took its name.