The Foundations of Society and the Land: A Review of the Social Systems of the Middle Ages in Britain, Their Growth and Their Decay: with a Special Reference to Land User, Supplemented by Some Observations on the Connection with Modern Conditions |
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... Scotland , Ireland , and Wales : a Historical Retrospect CHAPTER XXIV . SCOTLAND AND IRELAND TO 1170. 297 The Course of Change in Scotland , 297. The Struggle between Norwegian and Scot , 304. Somerled , 305 . Ireland to 1169 , 308 ...
... Scotland , Ireland , and Wales : a Historical Retrospect CHAPTER XXIV . SCOTLAND AND IRELAND TO 1170. 297 The Course of Change in Scotland , 297. The Struggle between Norwegian and Scot , 304. Somerled , 305 . Ireland to 1169 , 308 ...
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... SCOTLAND FROM ROBERT BRUCE TO JAMES VI . AND I. . A Summary , 411. Plantation as a Commercial Adventure , 412. The Breach with Rome , 413. The Position of Elizabeth , 414. The Separation of West and East in Scot- land , 415. James I ...
... SCOTLAND FROM ROBERT BRUCE TO JAMES VI . AND I. . A Summary , 411. Plantation as a Commercial Adventure , 412. The Breach with Rome , 413. The Position of Elizabeth , 414. The Separation of West and East in Scot- land , 415. James I ...
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... Scotland and Ireland , he must remake the constitutional part , bring in the Scandinavian and French influence , and leave the mythical Anglo - Saxon to one side . Our difficulties with Ireland now rise in very large part from the total ...
... Scotland and Ireland , he must remake the constitutional part , bring in the Scandinavian and French influence , and leave the mythical Anglo - Saxon to one side . Our difficulties with Ireland now rise in very large part from the total ...
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... Scotland , Somerled , Angus , Largs , is omitted . The author impresses Adrian's grant of Ireland to Henry , which does not appear to have played any part in the Conquest ; but the Geraldine invasions , the wars between the English ...
... Scotland , Somerled , Angus , Largs , is omitted . The author impresses Adrian's grant of Ireland to Henry , which does not appear to have played any part in the Conquest ; but the Geraldine invasions , the wars between the English ...
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... Scotland was at that time weaker than usual . St David had died in 1153. His son Henry had predeceased him , and he was succeeded by a boy of twelve years old , Malcolm the Maiden . Ireland , still not recovered from the slaughter of ...
... Scotland was at that time weaker than usual . St David had died in 1153. His son Henry had predeceased him , and he was succeeded by a boy of twelve years old , Malcolm the Maiden . Ireland , still not recovered from the slaughter of ...
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A.L. Irel acres agriculture alienation Anglo-Irish Anglo-Scot animals arable cultivation arable land Ardri authority barons beasts Brehon Brehon law Brittany called cattle cause century Charles of Blois chief Church claim commerce common lands common pasture communal society corn court crops Crown custom customary daughter deer Dermot Earl Edward enclosures England farming fencing feudal force fosterage France freeman gavelkind give group family Henry hunting individual influence instance interest Ireland Irish Islands Isles James John John of Montfort king's kinship labour lord manor manorial married military Norman Norsemen Norway odal Orkneys owner ownership pasturage plantation plough political possession regulations rent result Roman says Scotland Scots Scottish sept sheep social soil Somerled Tacitus tenants tenure timber trade tribal tribe tribesman Ulster unfree villein Wales waste Welsh Welsh laws West Western Highlands wild William the Lion wood
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Page 423 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 11 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and...
Page 390 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 423 - Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty. And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty ; — Seb.
Page 404 - Wherein it is a great wonder to see the odds which is between the zeal of popish priests and the ministers of the Gospel. For they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling, hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people into the Church of Rome.
Page 423 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 422 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Page 253 - ... by your High Court of Parliament. They make " us believe, that by virtue of your Highness all our former " writings are void, and of no effect : and that if we will " not take new leases of them, we must then forthwith " avoid the grounds, as having therein no interest.
Page 390 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 275 - 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 hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...