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" ... could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops, and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate.... "
The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The ... - Page 161
1853
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Hereward the Wake, Volume 2

Charles Kingsley - 1898 - 384 pages
...nor of priests: but they robbed the monks and clergy, and every man plundered his neighbor as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the townsfolk fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were forever...
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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with ..., Volume 9

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...priests; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbor as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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The Scotch-Irish: Or, The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland ..., Volume 1

Charles Augustus Hanna - 1902 - 648 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops, and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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The Historians' History of the World: England to 1485

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 690 pages
...but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour inasmuch as he might. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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The Historians' History of the World: England to 1485

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 686 pages
...but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour inasmuch as he might. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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Lectures on Early English History

William Stubbs - 1906 - 408 pages
...priests, but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were for ever cursing them,...
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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ...

Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...priests; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbor as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but...
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History of Hastings Castle: The Castlery, Rape and Battle of ..., Volume 1

Charles Dawson (F. S. A.) - 1909 - 398 pages
...church and all together. Nor forebore they a bishop's land, nor an abbot's, nor a priest's, but robbed monks and clerks, and every one plundered another if he could. If two men or three came riding to a town, all the township fled and weened they were reavers. The bishops...
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A Source Book of English History for the Use of Schools, Volume 1

Arthur Donald Innes - 1912 - 398 pages
...land, nor an abbot's, nor a priest's, but robbed monks and clerks, and every man another who anywhere could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, imagining them to be robbers. The bishops and clergy constantly cursed them, but nothing...
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