A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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Page 67
... took his stand for the battle . In Anglo - Saxon war- fare horses were never used during the actual combat , a national trait which comes out strikingly in the Battle of Hastings , where the Norman force was mainly cavalry , while of ...
... took his stand for the battle . In Anglo - Saxon war- fare horses were never used during the actual combat , a national trait which comes out strikingly in the Battle of Hastings , where the Norman force was mainly cavalry , while of ...
Page 74
... took place in 991. It was counted as a victory for the Danes . In the usual phrase 1 " Liber Eliensis , " ii . 63 . 2 Whether this tapestry is actually the work of Matilda , Queen of William the Conqueror , is doubtful . See Freeman's ...
... took place in 991. It was counted as a victory for the Danes . In the usual phrase 1 " Liber Eliensis , " ii . 63 . 2 Whether this tapestry is actually the work of Matilda , Queen of William the Conqueror , is doubtful . See Freeman's ...
Page 75
... took to their ships , and made no further attempt on East Anglia for fifteen years to come . And when they did appear , it was again to meet with heroic resistance , such as they were greeted with in no other part of Britain . During ...
... took to their ships , and made no further attempt on East Anglia for fifteen years to come . And when they did appear , it was again to meet with heroic resistance , such as they were greeted with in no other part of Britain . During ...
Page 78
... took place almost within its borders . With the death of Ethelred and the accession of his heroic son , Edmund Ironside , England awoke from the long stupor of terror , and rose against her invaders with a desperate effort which but a ...
... took place almost within its borders . With the death of Ethelred and the accession of his heroic son , Edmund Ironside , England awoke from the long stupor of terror , and rose against her invaders with a desperate effort which but a ...
Page 79
... took ship across the Thames estuary into Essex , and then marched through East Anglia into Mercia , " and harried whither- soever they went . ' Laden with spoil , they were returning toward their ships , " when Edmund once more came ...
... took ship across the Thames estuary into Essex , and then marched through East Anglia into Mercia , " and harried whither- soever they went . ' Laden with spoil , they were returning toward their ships , " when Edmund once more came ...
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Page 175 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
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Page 63 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
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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.
Page 247 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
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...