Social England: From the earliest times to the accession of Edward the FirstHenry Duff Traill Cassell, limited, 1894 |
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Social England: From the earliest times to the accession of Edward the First Henry Duff Traill Volledige weergave - 1893 |
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Anglo-Saxon arch Archbishop architecture barons battle Bayeux Tapestry became Bede Beowulf Bishop Bishop of Lincoln borough Britain British Britons Cæsar called Canterbury Canute castles Celtic Celts character Charter chief Christian Chronicle civilisation clergy coins Conqueror court Crown customs Danes Danish death Domesday Domesday Book Earl ecclesiastical Edward England fact feudal foreign French Friars fyrd gold hand Henry Henry II important influence John of Salisbury jury king king's kingdom knights land Lanfranc later Latin learning Lincoln London lord Matthew Paris medieval military monasteries monks Norman Conquest Normandy Northumbria Old English organisation origin Oxford period poem Pope probably reign religious Richard Roman Rome round royal rule Saxon says seems ships shire social stone thirteenth century towns trade tribes twelfth century vessels village walls Welsh whole William William of Malmesbury William of Newburgh Winchester
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Pagina lii - ... fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it. It can easily be proved that, in our own land, the national wealth has, during at least six centuries, been almost uninterruptedly increasing; that it was greater under the Tudors than under the Plantagenets ; that it was greater under the Stuarts than under the Tudors ; that in spite of battles, sieges, and confiscations, it was greater on the day of the Restoration...
Pagina 372 - The clergy, contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the Sacraments; and a person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment.
Pagina 235 - I may narrate somewhat prolixly - what or how much each man had who was a holder of land in England, in land, or in cattle, and how much money it might be worth. So very narrowly he caused it to be traced out, that there was not one single hide, nor one yard of land, nor even - it is shame to tell, though it seemed to him no shame to do - an ox, nor a cow, nor a swine, was left, that was not set down in his writ. And all the writings were brought to him afterwards.
Pagina 372 - I have related, they live in large edifices with economy ; envy their equals ; wish to excel their superiors ; and plunder their subjects, though they defend them from others ; they are faithful to their lords, though a slight offence renders them perfidious. They weigh treachery by its chance of success, and change their sentiments with money.
Pagina 372 - Moreover, the Normans, that I may speak of them also, were at that time and are even now, proudly apparelled, delicate in their food, but not excessive. They are a race inured to war, and can hardly live without it ; fierce in rushing against the enemy ; and where strength fails of success, ready to use stratagem, or to corrupt by bribery. As I have...
Pagina 462 - London a ring of brass for 5j4d., saying that the said ring was of the purest gold, and that he and a one-eyed man found it on the last Sunday in the churchyard of St. Ives, near the cross.
Pagina 167 - In after-days he won not only the halo of the saint, to which he may have been entitled, but the fame, to which he certainly was not entitled, of having been a great legislator. In the minster that he reared, king after king made oath to observe the laws of the Confessor. So far as we know, he never made a law. Had he made laws, had he even made good use of those that were already made, there might have been no Norman Conquest of England.
Pagina 376 - They place certain bones — the leg-bones of animals — under the soles of their feet, by tying them round their ankles ; and then, taking a pole shod with iron into their hands, they push themselves forward by striking it against the ice, and are carried on with a velocity equal to the flight of a bird, or a bolt discharged from a crossbow.
Pagina 374 - On the north are cornfields, pastures, and delightful meadows, intermixed with pleasant streams, on which stands many a mill, whose click is so grateful to the ear. Beyond them an immense forest extends itself, beautified with woods and groves, and full of the lairs and coverts of beasts and game, stags, bucks, boars, and wild bulls.
Pagina 376 - ... divert themselves on the ice ; some taking a small run for an increment of velocity, place their feet at a proper distance, and are carried sliding sideways a great way. Others will make a large cake of ice, and seating one of their companions upon it, they take...