 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1868 - 726 pages
...was but the precursor of the gang of foreigners who were soon to be quartered upon the country, as these were again only the first instalment of the...gang who were to win for themselves a more lasting The Nor- settlement four and twenty years later. In all this the quest be- seeds of the Conquest were... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1870 - 802 pages
...was but the forerunner of the gang of foreigners who were soon to be quartered upon the country, as these were again only the first instalment of the...gang who were to win for themselves a more lasting The Nor- settlement four and twenty years later. In all this the quest be- seeds of the Conquest were... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873 - 510 pages
...was but the forerunner of the gang of foreigners who were soon to be quartered upon the country, as these were again only the first instalment of the...the seeds of the Conquest were sowing, or rather, as I once before put it,2 it is now that the Conquest actually begins. The reign of Eadward is a period... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...was but the forerunner of the gang of foreigners who were soon to be quartered upon the country, as these were again only the first instalment of the larger gang who were to win The Nor- f° r themselves a more lasting settlement four and twenty ~ 7 ears later. In all this the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 760 pages
...was but the forerunner of the gang of foreigners who were soon to be quartered upon the country, as these were again only the first instalment of the larger gang who were to win The Nor- for themselves a more lasting settlement four and twenty years later. In all this the seeds... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1895 - 614 pages
...tongue, to enrich them with English estates, to invest them with the highest offices of the English kingdom . . . His real affections were lavished on...between natives and foreigners for dominion in England.* One has, it is true, always to remember that if Edward, on his mother's side, was a Norman, so was... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1895 - 618 pages
...tongue, to enrich them with English estates, to invest them with the highest offices of the English kingdom . . . His real affections were lavished on...struggle between natives and foreigners for dominion in England.4 One has, it is true, always to remember that if Edward, on his mother's side, was a Norman,... | |
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English kingdom . . . His real affections were lavished on the Norman priests and gentlemen who flocked to his court as to the land of promise. These strangers were placed in important offices about the royal person, and before long they were set to rule... 