The Annals of England: An Epitome of English History, from Contemporary Writers, the Rolls of Parliament, and Other Public Records ...John Henry and James Parker, 1865 |
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... Chronicle and Anglo - Saxon Laws detail with minuteness and indisputable truth the state of our Anglo - Saxon commonwealth . These have been care- fully analyzed , and the following pages contain a summary of their contents ; while from ...
... Chronicle and Anglo - Saxon Laws detail with minuteness and indisputable truth the state of our Anglo - Saxon commonwealth . These have been care- fully analyzed , and the following pages contain a summary of their contents ; while from ...
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... Chronicles , and Laws of each country , they may perhaps be sufficient to shew what degree of connexion formerly existed between the long independent and often hostile States which now happily unite to form the British Empire . Esto ...
... Chronicles , and Laws of each country , they may perhaps be sufficient to shew what degree of connexion formerly existed between the long independent and often hostile States which now happily unite to form the British Empire . Esto ...
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... Chronicle , following the Venerable Bede , the earliest English writer who de- serves the name of historian , commences its narrative with a brief description of Britain , and a legend of its first peopling . " " ' The island of Britain ...
... Chronicle , following the Venerable Bede , the earliest English writer who de- serves the name of historian , commences its narrative with a brief description of Britain , and a legend of its first peopling . " " ' The island of Britain ...
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... Chronicle to 167. Arch . bishop Ussher has collected from various writers no fewer than twenty - three different dates , ranging from 137 to 199 , to which it has been referred that given in the text is the one esteemed best supported ...
... Chronicle to 167. Arch . bishop Ussher has collected from various writers no fewer than twenty - three different dates , ranging from 137 to 199 , to which it has been referred that given in the text is the one esteemed best supported ...
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... Chronicle " about the 1110th . " Some authorities assign the year 409 , others 410 , on which Muratori remarks , " It is strange that the precise year of so great a cata- strophe should be so uncertain . " BRITAIN INDEPENDENT . 66 A.D. ...
... Chronicle " about the 1110th . " Some authorities assign the year 409 , others 410 , on which Muratori remarks , " It is strange that the precise year of so great a cata- strophe should be so uncertain . " BRITAIN INDEPENDENT . 66 A.D. ...
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