 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1870 - 802 pages
...which seems to charge Harold with defrauding the King. At p. 32 we read of lands in Surrey, " Heraldua tenuit de Rege E. Antequam Heraldus habuisset, defendebat...viderunt brevem ex parte Regis qui ad tantum posuisset." Norman view of things. Thus Adam of Bremen (iii. 13) says of the sons of Qodwine, " Tenuerunt Angliam... | |
 | Edward A. Freeman - 1877 - 784 pages
...the orthodox thing was to condemn William and Harold alike and to enlarge on the rights of Eadgar. Of the charges of sacrilege brought against Godwine...Tryggvesson seems to stand alone in wishing to make a saiut of Harold (" Haraklur Gudina son, er sumir kalla helgan vera." p. 263). But other Scandinavian... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1888 - 432 pages
...instance, of a manor of Westminster Abbey (' Peliforde ') which Harold had held TRE, we read : — ' Antequam Heraldus habuisset, defendebat se pro xxvII...habuit, pro XVI hidis ad libitum heraldi. Homines de hundret nunquam audierunt nee viderunt breve ex parte regis qui ad tantum posuisset ' (32). Moreover,... | |
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... inclinabat assensum." Of the charges of sacrilege brought against Godwine and Harold I shall speak in the next Note ; but this may be the best place to quote an entry in Domesday, which seems to charge Harold with defrauding the King. At p. 32 we... 