...had been for centuries. I have still some few features to add to my description. Nothing, I- think, proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...government and the people, than the fact that all Every Kng- classes were armed. Every man, as I have already trained'1' said, was a soldier; and every...

...had been for centuries. I have still some few features to add to my description. Nothing, I think, proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...government and the people, than the fact that all Hsh6ry Eng classes were arme(l. Every man, as I have already trained said, was a soldier; and every...

...of the i4th century by such infantry as the English and Genoese archers against mounted men-at arms were not despised. With an aptitude and a love for...confidence which held together the government and the peuple, than the fact that all classes were armed.' In war, in those days, the archers of England were...

...had been for centuries. I have still some few features to add to my description. Nothing, I think, proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...people, than the fact that all classes were armed. Every man, as I have already said, was a soldier ; and every man was ready equipped at all times with...

...respected by those lords and knights who led them in battle. " Nothing," says Froude, in his History, " proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...people than the fact that all classes were armed." But very different was the state of the commonalty in France, who were then trampled on and despised...

...had been for centuries. I have still some few features to add to my description. Nothing, I think, proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...people, than the fact that all classes were armed. Every man, as I have already said, dler- was a soldier ; and every man was ready equipped at all times...

...existed a cordial sympathy and a mutual confidence. 'Nothing,' says Froude (Hist. Eng., vol. i, p. 60), 'proves more surely the mutual confidence which held...than the fact that all classes were armed.' ... In France the nobility was rampant, and arrogated to itself the profession of arms. The people, despised...

...cordial sympathy and a a mutual confidence. " Nothing," says Fronde (' History of England/ vol. t.,p. 60} "nothing proves more surely the mutual confidence...best infantry in the world ; but, then, their famous lone-bow acquired its reputation in no slight degree from the fact that, m peace, archery was the favourite...