William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King StephenG. Bell, 1895 - 544 pages |
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... King Stephen William (of ... King Egbert , who , after the different Princes had fallen by various ways , gained the monarchy of almost the whole island . But as among the English arose four powerful kingdoms , that is to say , of Kent ...
... King Stephen William (of ... King Egbert , who , after the different Princes had fallen by various ways , gained the monarchy of almost the whole island . But as among the English arose four powerful kingdoms , that is to say , of Kent ...
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From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen William (of Malmesbury) John Allen Giles. THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND . BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Of the arrival of the Angles , and of the Kings of Kent . [ A.D. 449. ] In the year ...
From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen William (of Malmesbury) John Allen Giles. THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND . BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Of the arrival of the Angles , and of the Kings of Kent . [ A.D. 449. ] In the year ...
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... king as he sat at table . Nor was the design unsuccessful for he , ever eager after female beauty , deeply smitten with the graceful- * Bede i . 15. The people of Kent and of the Isle of Wight were Jutes ; the East , South , and West ...
... king as he sat at table . Nor was the design unsuccessful for he , ever eager after female beauty , deeply smitten with the graceful- * Bede i . 15. The people of Kent and of the Isle of Wight were Jutes ; the East , South , and West ...
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... king : but , at last , appearing to consent with reluctance , he gave way to his importunities , and accepted , as a reward , the whole of Kent , where all justice had long since declined under the administration of its Gourong ( or ...
... king : but , at last , appearing to consent with reluctance , he gave way to his importunities , and accepted , as a reward , the whole of Kent , where all justice had long since declined under the administration of its Gourong ( or ...
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... king of France , by marrying his daughter Bertha . And now by this ... king to the knowledge of Christ our Lord . Hence it arose , that his mind , already ... Kent in 558 . The difference seems to have arisen from carelessness in the ...
... king of France , by marrying his daughter Bertha . And now by this ... king to the knowledge of Christ our Lord . Hence it arose , that his mind , already ... Kent in 558 . The difference seems to have arisen from carelessness in the ...
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