Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders' KinHarrison, 1864 - 400 pages |
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... barons who came over with William the Con- queror , we find that of Brueys ; and from the Domesday Book , it appears that a family that a family of the same name were possessed of lands in Yorkshire . Coming down to a later period ...
... barons who came over with William the Con- queror , we find that of Brueys ; and from the Domesday Book , it appears that a family that a family of the same name were possessed of lands in Yorkshire . Coming down to a later period ...
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... baron , thought proper that he should be removed to the English court . The friendship subsisting between Edward the First and the earl of Carrick induced the former to adopt the earl's son ; so that the confiding monarch trained up his ...
... baron , thought proper that he should be removed to the English court . The friendship subsisting between Edward the First and the earl of Carrick induced the former to adopt the earl's son ; so that the confiding monarch trained up his ...
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... diminished . In 1296 , Edward held a parliament at Berwick , compelling the Scotch barons to do him homage , and the young lord of Car- rick concurred in the national submission . But notwithstanding this 12 ROBERT BRUCE .
... diminished . In 1296 , Edward held a parliament at Berwick , compelling the Scotch barons to do him homage , and the young lord of Car- rick concurred in the national submission . But notwithstanding this 12 ROBERT BRUCE .
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... got through , and came into our Ladie's chappel , where the duke and other barons sat them down with the archbishop and other bishops ; John Wickliff standing before them , according to the usual manner JOHN OF GAUNT . 35.
... got through , and came into our Ladie's chappel , where the duke and other barons sat them down with the archbishop and other bishops ; John Wickliff standing before them , according to the usual manner JOHN OF GAUNT . 35.
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... barons , each party endeavouring to augment its own power by diminishing that of the other . It was , indeed , owing to these disputes that the people at large owed their first glimpses of liberty ; for the sovereigns , often inferior ...
... barons , each party endeavouring to augment its own power by diminishing that of the other . It was , indeed , owing to these disputes that the people at large owed their first glimpses of liberty ; for the sovereigns , often inferior ...
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Page 75 - Then the fore-mentioned gentleman returned, and conducted him back to his school. Some time after, the same gentleman came to him again, with a horse and proper accoutrements, and told him he must take a journey with him into the country. They went into Leicestershire, and came to Bosworth field; and he was carried to King Richard III.'s tent. The king embraced him, and told him he was his son. " But, child," says he, " to-morrow I must fight for my crown.
Page 2 - Stimulated by these words, or rather by the Divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he spoke before all his brothers, who, though his seniors in age, were not so in grace, and answered, " Will you really give that book to...
Page 75 - Sir, you have a numerous family ; I have been used to live retired ; give me leave to build a house of one room for myself, in such a field, and there, with your good leave, I will live and die.
Page 90 - ... mercy, In Westminster as he did stand, On a certain day in a study, A book of reason he had in his hand, And so sore his study he did apply, That his tender tears fell on the ground, All men might see that stood him by : There were both earls and lords of land, But none of them durst speak but I. I came before my father the king...
Page 81 - I saw one of them, who was Duke of Exeter* (but he concealed his name), following the Duke of Burgundy's train bare-foot and bare-legged, begging his bread from door to door. This person was the next of the house of Lancaster ; he had married King Edward's sister, and being afterwards known, had a small pension allowed him for his subsistence.
Page 89 - Heare is no more but you and I ; King Edward that was my father dear, On whose estate God had mercy, In Westminster as he did stand, On a certain day in a study, A book of reason he had in his hand, And so sore his study he did apply, That his tender tears fell on the ground, All men might see that stood him by : There were both earls and lords of land, But none of them durst speak but I.
Page 93 - ... dissension. When the commons presented to the king the usual grant of tonnage and poundage for life, they coupled with it a petition, that he would be pleased to " take to wife and consort the princess Elizabeth, which | " marriage they hoped God would bless with a progeny
Page 28 - England," again to quote the judicious Camden, "certain it is, that as the better sort, even from the Conquest, by little and little took surnames, so they were not settled among the common people fully until about the time of Edward the Second.
Page 5 - Why, man ! do you sit thinking there, and are too proud to turn the bread ? Whatever be your family, with such manners and sloth, what trust can be put in you hereafter ? If you were even a nobleman, you will be glad to eat the bread which you neglect to attend to.
Page 66 - And all men of this our realm, as well spiritual as temporal (as much as in them is), shall observe the same against all persons in like wise.