 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1868 - 726 pages
...a little earlier* as the scene of courts and councils.' It became during this reign what ,ti mained during the reign of the Conqueror, the place where...once to the borders of two of the great Earldoms. It lay also near to the borders of the dangerous Welsh, whose motions, under princes like the two Gruffydds,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873 - 510 pages
...to take the place which was held by Oxford a little earlier2 as the scene of courts and councils.3 It became during this reign, what it remained during...borders of two of the great Earldoms and to the borders of the dangerous Welsh. Their motions, under princes like the two Gruffydds, it was doubtless often... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...to take the place which was held by Oxford a little earlier 2 as the scene of courts and councils. 3 It became during this reign, what it remained during...Christmas festival, as he wore it at Winchester at Easter. The spot was fitted for such purposes as lying near at once to the borders of two of the great earldoms... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 760 pages
...to take the place which was held by Oxford a little earlier 2 as the scene of courts and councils.3 It became during this reign, what it remained during...Christmas festival, as he wore it at Winchester at Easter. The spot was fitted for such purposes as lying near at once to the borders of two of the great earldoms... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1899 - 424 pages
...of Edward the Confessor, AD 1042-1066, Gloucester became, and continued during the reign of William the Conqueror, the place where the king wore his crown at the Christmas Feast as he wore it at Winchester at Easter. It was emphatically " a royal city," and became one of... | |
 | Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1903 - 456 pages
...was held by Oxford a little earlier, as the scene of courts and councils, and it remained during his reign what it remained during the reign of the Conqueror, the place where the king " wore his crown " at Christmas, as he wore it at Winchester at Easter, and at Westminster at Whitsuntide. There was then... | |
 | Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1902 - 864 pages
...was held by Oxford a little earlier, as the scene of courts and councils, and it remained during his reign what it remained during the reign of the Conqueror, the place where the king " wore his crown " at Christmas, as he wore it at Winchester at Easter, and at Westminster at Whitsuntide. There was then... | |
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It became during this reign, what it remained during the reign of the Conqueror, the place where the King wore his Crown at the Christmas festival, as he wore it at Winchester at Easter. It was... 