A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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Page xi
... completed by overthrow of Caractacus Boadicea's rebellion 61 . Cambridgeshire wasted by Romans 14 - 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 21 22 Pax Romana , Cambridgeshire flourishing and populous 22 , 26 Cambridge ( ? Camboritum ) a Roman town 25 138 ...
... completed by overthrow of Caractacus Boadicea's rebellion 61 . Cambridgeshire wasted by Romans 14 - 16 - 16 16 18 18 18 21 22 Pax Romana , Cambridgeshire flourishing and populous 22 , 26 Cambridge ( ? Camboritum ) a Roman town 25 138 ...
Page xv
... completed 1107. Bishopric of Ely founded - II12 . Barnwell Abbey founded 1116. University of Bologna begun 1118. Templars established PAGE 98 95 120 99 - ΙΟΙ IIO 112 90 112 113 - ΠΙΟ 120 116 128 · 105 · 112 - III IIO - 121 116 I120 ...
... completed 1107. Bishopric of Ely founded - II12 . Barnwell Abbey founded 1116. University of Bologna begun 1118. Templars established PAGE 98 95 120 99 - ΙΟΙ IIO 112 90 112 113 - ΠΙΟ 120 116 128 · 105 · 112 - III IIO - 121 116 I120 ...
Page xvi
... completed at Ely 1349. Ely Lady Chapel completed The Black Death . Ashwell inscription 1350. Trinity Hall founded 1352. Corpus Christi College founded · 1359. Clare College founded 1370. Gregory XI . , Pope- 1377 . Richard II . The Poll ...
... completed at Ely 1349. Ely Lady Chapel completed The Black Death . Ashwell inscription 1350. Trinity Hall founded 1352. Corpus Christi College founded · 1359. Clare College founded 1370. Gregory XI . , Pope- 1377 . Richard II . The Poll ...
Page xvii
... completed by Elizabeth Woodville 1478. Morton , Bishop of Ely , attempts drainage of Fens 1483. Richard III . 1485. Henry VII . 1486. Alcock , Bishop of Ely 1496. Jesus College founded 1497. Fisher , Master of Michaelhouse 1498 ...
... completed by Elizabeth Woodville 1478. Morton , Bishop of Ely , attempts drainage of Fens 1483. Richard III . 1485. Henry VII . 1486. Alcock , Bishop of Ely 1496. Jesus College founded 1497. Fisher , Master of Michaelhouse 1498 ...
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... completing them into very passable wigwams for the scanty population , who supported them- selves partly by hunting , but more particularly by the pasturage which the open chalk lands afforded for their sheep and their scarcely larger ...
... completing them into very passable wigwams for the scanty population , who supported them- selves partly by hunting , but more particularly by the pasturage which the open chalk lands afforded for their sheep and their scarcely larger ...
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Page 191 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 191 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
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Page 20 - Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check : imperfect indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of...