History of the English People, Volume 4Harper & brothers, 1878 'For the close of Henry the Eighth's reign as for the reigns of Edward and Mary we possess copious materials. Strype covers this period in his 'Memorials' and in his lives of Cranmer, Cheke, and Smith; Hayward's 'Life of Edward the Sixth' may be supplemented by the young king's own Journal; 'Machyn's Diary' gives us the aspect of affairs as they presented themselves to a common Englishman; while Holinshed is near enough to serve as a contemporary authority.' |
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... King was supreme . But in peace his power was narrowly bounded by the customs of his people and the rede of his wise men . Justice was not as yet the King's justice , it was the justice of village and hundred and folk in town moot and ...
... King was supreme . But in peace his power was narrowly bounded by the customs of his people and the rede of his wise men . Justice was not as yet the King's justice , it was the justice of village and hundred and folk in town moot and ...
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... king's household or the king's war - band , but still The bound to him by personal ties of allegiance far closer than Kingdoms . those which bound an eorl to the chosen war - leader of the 577- tribe . In a word , thegnhood contained ...
... king's household or the king's war - band , but still The bound to him by personal ties of allegiance far closer than Kingdoms . those which bound an eorl to the chosen war - leader of the 577- tribe . In a word , thegnhood contained ...
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... King Æthelberht found himself hemmed in on every side by English territory ; and since conquest over Britons was denied him he sought a new sphere of action in setting his kingdom at the head of the conquerors of the south . The break ...
... King Æthelberht found himself hemmed in on every side by English territory ; and since conquest over Britons was denied him he sought a new sphere of action in setting his kingdom at the head of the conquerors of the south . The break ...
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... king . The new religion was carried beyond the bounds of Kent by the supremacy which Æthelberht wielded over the neighbouring kingdoms . Sæberht , King of the East - Saxons , received a bishop sent from Kent , and suffered him to build ...
... king . The new religion was carried beyond the bounds of Kent by the supremacy which Æthelberht wielded over the neighbouring kingdoms . Sæberht , King of the East - Saxons , received a bishop sent from Kent , and suffered him to build ...
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... king became in fact supreme Kingdoms . over Britain as no king of English blood had been before . Northward his frontier reached to the Firth of Forth , and . here , if we trust tradition , Eadwine founded a city which bore his name ...
... king became in fact supreme Kingdoms . over Britain as no king of English blood had been before . Northward his frontier reached to the Firth of Forth , and . here , if we trust tradition , Eadwine founded a city which bore his name ...
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Página 247 - The influence of the trading class is seen in two other enactments by which freedom of journeying and trade was secured to foreign merchants and an uniformity of weights and measures was ordered to be enforced throughout the realm.
Página 440 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labor, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Página 438 - I could not believe," said Petrarch of this time, "that this was the same France which I had seen so rich and flourishing. Nothing presented itself to my eyes but a fearful solitude, an utter poverty, land uncultivated, houses in ruins. Even the neighbourhood of Paris showed everywhere marks of desolation and conflagration. The streets are deserted, the roads overgrown with weeds, the whole is a vast solitude.
Página 155 - ... every rich man built his castles, and defended them against him, and they filled the land full of castles. They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men.
Página 285 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 565 - Parliament met in November, and a bitter strife between York and Somerset ended in the arrest of the latter. A demand which at once followed shows the importance of his fall. Henry the Sixth still remained childless; and Young, a member for Bristol, proposed in the Commons that the Duke of York should be declared heir to the throne. But the blow was averted by repeated prorogations, and Henry's sympathies were shown by the committal of Young to the Tower, by the release of Somerset, and by his promotion...
Página 55 - Lindisfarne, or of the new religious houses whose foundation followed that of Lindisfarne, looked for their ecclesiastical tradition, not to Rome but to Ireland ; and quoted for their guidance the instructions, not of Gregory, but of Columba. Whatever claims of supremacy over the whole English Church might be pressed by the See of Canterbury, the real metropolitan of the Church as it existed in the North of England was the Abbot of lona.
Página 244 - But in itself the Charter was no novelty, nor did it claim to establish any new constitutional principles. The Charter of Henry the First formed the basis of the whole, and the additions to it are for the most part formal recognitions of the judicial and administrative changes introduced by Henry the Second. But the vague expressions of the older charters were now exchanged for precise and elaborate provisions.
Página 502 - Children in school," says a writer of the earlier reign," against the usage and manner of all other nations, be compelled for to leave their own language, and for to construe their lessons and their things in French, and so they have since Normans first came into England.
Página 212 - In the silent growth and elevation of the English people the boroughs led the way : unnoticed and despised by prelate and noble they had alone preserved or won back again the full tradition of Teutonic liberty. The rights of self-government, of free speech in free meeting, of equal justice by one's equals, were brought safely across the ages of tyranny by the burghers and shopkeepers of the towns.