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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... monks , both at home and abroad , who had much forwarded his success , received handsome tokens of his gratitude . He divided the lands of the English barons , who had opposed him , among 126 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR . [ Period 4 .
... monks , both at home and abroad , who had much forwarded his success , received handsome tokens of his gratitude . He divided the lands of the English barons , who had opposed him , among 126 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR . [ Period 4 .
Page 127
... barons , who had opposed him , among the Norman barons . And such as he could neither supply with money or lands , he appointed to the vacant offices of the state ; many others were quar- tered in the rich abbeys of the kingdom , until ...
... barons , who had opposed him , among the Norman barons . And such as he could neither supply with money or lands , he appointed to the vacant offices of the state ; many others were quar- tered in the rich abbeys of the kingdom , until ...
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... barons exercised all kind of jurisdiction within their own manors , and held courts , in which they administered justice to their vassals . The ecclesiastical landed properties were submitted to the K 2 Period 4. ] WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ...
... barons exercised all kind of jurisdiction within their own manors , and held courts , in which they administered justice to their vassals . The ecclesiastical landed properties were submitted to the K 2 Period 4. ] WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ...
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... barons of that duchy to do him homage as their future so- vereign . But when Robert demanded the execu- tion of those engagements , he received an absolute denial , the king shrewdly observing , that it was not his custom to throw off ...
... barons of that duchy to do him homage as their future so- vereign . But when Robert demanded the execu- tion of those engagements , he received an absolute denial , the king shrewdly observing , that it was not his custom to throw off ...
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... barons to take the same course , in hopes that when he should mount the papal throne , he would bestow on them more considerable establishments in that country . The king , from whom all these projects had been care- fully concealed ...
... barons to take the same course , in hopes that when he should mount the papal throne , he would bestow on them more considerable establishments in that country . The king , from whom all these projects had been care- fully concealed ...
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