History of England from the Earliest Times to the Year 1858Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1860 - 856 páginas |
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ambition Anglo-Saxon Archbishop arms army barons battle Battle of Hastings Becket bishops Britons brother Canterbury Canute castle cause Church clergy conqueror conquest courage court crown daughter death defeated defend Duke Earl Edgar Atheling Edward Edward the Confessor Emperor enemies England English Essex estates father favour favourite feudal forced foreign France French king Gloucester Guienne hands Henry Henry IV Henry's Heptarchy holy honour hundred inhabitants invaders invasion John John of Gaunt King of France king's kingdom knights Lancaster land LANDMARKS OF CHRONOLOGY London lords married Matilda monarch murder nobility nobles Norman Normandy Parliament peace person Philip Philip Augustus Picts Pope possession prelate priests Prince prisoner queen reign resist Richard Roman Rome Rouen royal Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish seized sent slain sovereign Stephen success summoned sword thousand throne tion took Tower towns Vortigern Wales warriors William William Clito William Longchamp York
Pasajes populares
Página 729 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 489 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Página 649 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Página 649 - That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 11 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 650 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void; 13.
Página 302 - I have for a long time wished to meet with them, and now, please God and St. George, we will fight with them ; for, in truth, they have done me so much mischief, that I will be revenged on them, if it be possible.
Página 452 - The duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o'clock in the morning.
Página 165 - 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.
Página 310 - Ah, gentle sir, since I have crossed the sea with great danger to see you, I have never asked you one favour : now, I most humbly ask as a gift, for the sake of the Son of the blessed Mary, and for your love to me, that you will be merciful to these six men.