The First Twelve Centuries of British Story: A Slight Sketch and Criticism of the Social and Political Conditions in the British Islands (herein Called Britain) from the Year 56 B.C. to the Accession of Henry II to the Throne of England in 1154 A.D.Longmans, Green, 1912 - 436 pages |
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The First Twelve Centuries of British Story: A Slight Sketch and Criticism ... John Wynne Jeudwine No preview available - 2015 |
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Alfred alliance Annals archbishop Ardri army Athelstan attack authority battle became Bede bishop Brehon law Brian Britain British Britons Cæsar called Canute cattle century chief Christian Church coast conquest Danes death defeated defence Denmark Dublin Dunstan earl East Anglia Eastern Edgar empire enemy England English Eric Bloodaxe Ethelred Ethelred II Ethelred's Europe fight Firth fleet force forest Gaul Harold Harold Bluetooth heathen Henry invaded invasion Ireland Irish islands Isle Kent king king's land later laws leader Leinster London Malachi Malcolm Meath Mercia monasteries monastic monks Munster naval Norman Normandy Norse North Humbria Northmen Norway Norwegian Olaf Cuaran Olaf Trygvasson Orkneys overlord pagan peace Picts plunder Pope raids records reign Roman Rome ruler Saga sailed Saxon Chronicle Scandinavian Scotland Scots settled ships story Sweyn Thames trade tribal tribes Ulster Viking Wales Welsh Wessex Western William William of Malmesbury Witan
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Page 204 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 303 - For this is not the liberty which wee can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this World expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply consider'd, and speedily reform'd, then is the utmost bound of civill liberty attain'd, that wise men looke for.
Page 124 - Erin had power to give even the milk of his cow, nor as much as the clutch of eggs of one hen in succour or in kindness to an aged man, or to a friend, but was forced to preserve them for the foreign steward or bailiff or soldier.
Page 406 - This is the peace that King Alfred and King Guthrum, and the ' witan' of all the English nation, and all the people that are in East Anglia, have all ordained and with oaths confirmed, for themselves and for their descendants, as well for born as for unborn, who reck of God's mercy or of ours.
Page 239 - And to go or ride to the market to sell butter, cheese, milk, eggs, chickens, capons, hens, pigs, geese and all manner of corns.
Page 410 - If I go into battle I will give my help to the king, for he has most need of help. And if I must believe in a God, why not in the White Christ as well as in any other? Now it is my advice, therefore, that we let ourselves be baptized, since the king insists so much upon it, and then go into the battle with him.
Page xliii - It was wonderful how, when the English kings were hastening to encounter them in the eastern districts, before they could fall in with the enemy's bands, a hurried messenger would arrive and say, " Sir king, whither are you marching ? The heathens have disembarked from a countless fleet on the southern coast, and are ravaging the towns and villages, carrying fire and slaughter into every quarter.
Page 247 - ... of faggots, and two tuns full of pure ale, and two beasts fit for slaughter, and six hundred loaves, and ten measures of Welsh ale, and each year a horse, and thirty shillings, and one day's entertainment.
Page 406 - And we all ordained on that day that the oaths were sworn, that neither bond nor free might go to the host without leave, no more than any of them to us.
Page 272 - Another very true medicine. — For to say every day at seven parts of your body, seven paternosters, and seven Ave Marias, with one Credo at the last. Ye shal begyn at the ryght syde, under the ryght ere, saying the 'paternoster qui es in ccelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum...