The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... English Bed . ( From ancient MS . ) Fireplace , Boothby Pagnel Manor - house . Ladies ' Costume , time of Edward I. Bacon's Tower , which formerly stood on the 391 393 Fall of Lancaster . 437 399 Retreat of Edward from Scotland 439 400 ...
... English Bed . ( From ancient MS . ) Fireplace , Boothby Pagnel Manor - house . Ladies ' Costume , time of Edward I. Bacon's Tower , which formerly stood on the 391 393 Fall of Lancaster . 437 399 Retreat of Edward from Scotland 439 400 ...
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... English Colony founded at Calais The Order of the Garter Windsor ; St. Stephen's Chapel The Great Pestilence • • 466 Expedition of the Black Prince · • 468 King John a prisoner in England 469 The Jacquerie • • 469 Invasion of France ...
... English Colony founded at Calais The Order of the Garter Windsor ; St. Stephen's Chapel The Great Pestilence • • 466 Expedition of the Black Prince · • 468 King John a prisoner in England 469 The Jacquerie • • 469 Invasion of France ...
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... English Home , as well as the history of the English State . The province of the historian is symbolised by those paintings of the Muse of History , which represent her with a half expanded scroll . She has a great office to make the ...
... English Home , as well as the history of the English State . The province of the historian is symbolised by those paintings of the Muse of History , which represent her with a half expanded scroll . She has a great office to make the ...
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... English Channel to those of the Irish Sea and the German Ocean , and connected all the inland country from the Thames to the Tyne , as completely , and more directly , than the railway system of our own day . According to the wants of ...
... English Channel to those of the Irish Sea and the German Ocean , and connected all the inland country from the Thames to the Tyne , as completely , and more directly , than the railway system of our own day . According to the wants of ...
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... English mother , Helena , -born in Britain - raised to the imperial power by the affection of the army in Britain , in 306 , -would necessarily afford every encourage- ment to the propagation of the faith which he had himself adopted ...
... English mother , Helena , -born in Britain - raised to the imperial power by the affection of the army in Britain , in 306 , -would necessarily afford every encourage- ment to the propagation of the faith which he had himself adopted ...
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