A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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Page 37
... Canterbury , where he go- verned about forty years , and left his new acquired dominions to his posterity . The success of Hengist encouraged other Saxon chiefs to come over and attempt to settle themselves in Britain . One of these ...
... Canterbury , where he go- verned about forty years , and left his new acquired dominions to his posterity . The success of Hengist encouraged other Saxon chiefs to come over and attempt to settle themselves in Britain . One of these ...
Page 41
... Luidhart , a French bishop , to the court of Canterbury ; and being zealous for the pro- pagation of her religion she supported the credit of her faith by an irreproachable conduct , and em- ployed Period 2. ] 41 HEPTARCHY .
... Luidhart , a French bishop , to the court of Canterbury ; and being zealous for the pro- pagation of her religion she supported the credit of her faith by an irreproachable conduct , and em- ployed Period 2. ] 41 HEPTARCHY .
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... Canterbury , and invested with authority over all the British churches . His associates , spreading themselves over all the country , completed that conversion which they had so happily begun . The kingdom of the Heptarchy which next em ...
... Canterbury , and invested with authority over all the British churches . His associates , spreading themselves over all the country , completed that conversion which they had so happily begun . The kingdom of the Heptarchy which next em ...
Page 89
... Canterbury , over whom he had an absolute ascendancy , he burst into the apartment , grossly upbraided Edwy with his lasciviousness , bestowed probably on the queen the most opprobrious epithets , and tearing him from her arms , pushed ...
... Canterbury , over whom he had an absolute ascendancy , he burst into the apartment , grossly upbraided Edwy with his lasciviousness , bestowed probably on the queen the most opprobrious epithets , and tearing him from her arms , pushed ...
Page 98
... Canterbury , who had refused to countenance this exaction . The English nobility found no other re- source than that of submitting every where to the Danish monarch , and accordingly swore allegiance to him , and gave him hostages for ...
... Canterbury , who had refused to countenance this exaction . The English nobility found no other re- source than that of submitting every where to the Danish monarch , and accordingly swore allegiance to him , and gave him hostages for ...
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