 | G. Collins - 1859 - 300 pages
...raise them, putting to sale the crown revenues and most important offices of the kingdom, he replied, that he would "sell London itself, if he could find a purchaser." The government of the country during his absence was committed to Hugh, bishop of Durham, and Longchamp,... | |
 | 1860 - 654 pages
...raise them, putting to sale the crown revenues and most important offices of the kingdom, he replied, that he would " sell London itself if he could find a purchaser." The government of the country during his absence was committed to Hugh, bishop of Durham, and Longchamp,... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 500 pages
...levied, but the murderers escaped punishment. 1 The chivalrous part of Richard's reign is in itself of little importance for English history. But its...Henry were condoned by his continued employment under Richard.- This indignity did not prevent the aged legist from joining the crusade, and he was among... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 502 pages
...levied, but the murderers escaped punishment.1 The chivalrous part of Richard's reign is in itself of little importance for English history. But its...Henry were condoned by his continued employment under Richard.2 This indignity did not prevent the aged legist from joining the crusade, and he was among... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1864 - 310 pages
...absent from the country, Richard trafficked in the sale of the various offices of the kingdom ; he once said, " that he would sell London itself if he could find a purchaser ; " this feeling gave rise to the sale of charters to the cities and towns : through no merit of his... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1864 - 166 pages
...absent from the country, Richard trafficked in the sale of the various offices of the kingdom ; he onee said, " that he would sell London itself if he could find a purchaser ; " this feeling gave rise to the sale of charters to the cities and towns : through no merit of his... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 660 pages
...determination to obtain money ; and when some of his courtiers ventured to remonstrate with him, he said that he would sell London itself, if he could find a buyer, f Titles and offices of state were also sold without scruple. Hugh Pudsey, Bishop of Durham,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1869 - 550 pages
...and other border strongholds ; and when remonstrated with for thus stripping his kingdom, he replied that he would sell London itself if he could find a purchaser. By these means, and by rigorous imposts on all classes of the community, Richard collected one of the... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1869 - 566 pages
...and other border strongholds ; and when remonstrated with for thus stripping his kingdom, he replied that he would sell London itself if he could find a purchaser. By these means, and by rigorous imposts on all classes of the community, Richard collected one of the... | |
 | Henry Ince, James Burkhart Gilbert - 1872 - 174 pages
...absent from the countiy, Richard trafficked in the sale of the various offices of the .kingdom ; he once said " that he would sell London itself if he could find a purchaser;" this feeling gave rise to the sale of charters to the cities and towns ; through no merit of his own... | |
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Richard's reign is in itself of little importance for English history. But its indirect results changed the face of the country. Among them, the purchase of charters by the municipalities may be classed in the first order. Richard once said that he would... 
