A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... accepted the proposal soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea ...
... accepted the proposal soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea ...
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... accepted , then peace was made and all thought of vengeance was at an end . At a later time , at all events after the arrival of the English in this country , charges of murder were brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged ...
... accepted , then peace was made and all thought of vengeance was at an end . At a later time , at all events after the arrival of the English in this country , charges of murder were brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged ...
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... accepted as king by all those which lay between the Tees and the Forth . His new kingdom was called Bernicia , and his principal fortress was on a rock by the sea at Bamborough . During the next fifty years he and his successors ...
... accepted as king by all those which lay between the Tees and the Forth . His new kingdom was called Bernicia , and his principal fortress was on a rock by the sea at Bamborough . During the next fifty years he and his successors ...
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... accepted in almost all the monasteries of Western Europe . The special feature of this rule was that it encouraged labour as well as prayer . It was a saying of Benedict himself that ' to labour is to pray . ' He did not mean that ...
... accepted in almost all the monasteries of Western Europe . The special feature of this rule was that it encouraged labour as well as prayer . It was a saying of Benedict himself that ' to labour is to pray . ' He did not mean that ...
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... accepted Christianity as to worship Christ amongst his other gods . 8. The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh . --Augustine's Church was weak , because it depended on the kings , and had not had time to root itself in the affections of ...
... accepted Christianity as to worship Christ amongst his other gods . 8. The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh . --Augustine's Church was weak , because it depended on the kings , and had not had time to root itself in the affections of ...
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