The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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... gave orders for building six hundred sail of both sorts . With these he again passed over early in spring into Britain , but , whilst he was marching with a large army towards the enemy , the ships , riding at anchor , were , by a ...
... gave orders for building six hundred sail of both sorts . With these he again passed over early in spring into Britain , but , whilst he was marching with a large army towards the enemy , the ships , riding at anchor , were , by a ...
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... gave his son the title of Britannicus . This war he concluded in the fourth year of his empire , which is the forty - sixth from the incarnation of our Lord . In which year there hap- pened a most grievous famine in Syria , which , in ...
... gave his son the title of Britannicus . This war he concluded in the fourth year of his empire , which is the forty - sixth from the incarnation of our Lord . In which year there hap- pened a most grievous famine in Syria , which , in ...
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... gave that dispirited people good advice , with patterns to furnish them with arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper distances , where their ships were , because there also the irruptions of ...
... gave that dispirited people good advice , with patterns to furnish them with arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper distances , where their ships were , because there also the irruptions of ...
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... gave themselves up to more heinous crimes . IN the meantime , in Britain , there was some respite from foreign , but not from civil war . There still remained the D ruins of cities destroyed by the enemy , and abandoned A.D 447. ] 333 ...
... gave themselves up to more heinous crimes . IN the meantime , in Britain , there was some respite from foreign , but not from civil war . There still remained the D ruins of cities destroyed by the enemy , and abandoned A.D 447. ] 333 ...
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... gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury , with such possessions of different kinds as were necessary for their subsistence . CHAP . XXVII . St. Augustine , being made bishop , sends to acquaint Pope Gregory ...
... gave his teachers a settled residence in his metropolis of Canterbury , with such possessions of different kinds as were necessary for their subsistence . CHAP . XXVII . St. Augustine , being made bishop , sends to acquaint Pope Gregory ...
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