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- He died in 1026, leaving two sons, Richard and Robert, both
- The Earl, however, saw that neither Saxons nor Danes would s
- The citizens, dreading an assault, promised to yield the nex
- Man by man the noble Saxons were hewn down as the Normans cu
- Yet all the Norman clergy were not such as these, and never
- These were the days of church-building--the days of the circ
- It sent him off in a rage, with all his crew of dissolute fo
- Shortly after, Anselm expostulated with William on the wretc
- The Anglo-Normans had not been so forward in the Crusade as
- The love and reverence with which so bold a warrior treated
- It has been the fashion to call him a fool and a coward; and
- Henry, always courteous, answered that his own arrangements
- Ere long Aelred became a monk, and Waltheof was not slow in
- It was shortly after this that Aelred, the good Abbot of Riv
- These are witnesses of the combat between Henry II. and Thom
- Becket could hardly have been prepared for the manner of his
- “Rich and rare were the gems she wore,”
- Accordingly, De Lacy sent a band of horsemen, who fell upon
- This broke the tie that held him to obedience, and he went t
- This overbearing conduct of Richard alienated the chief Crus
- They were, however, in no condition to oppose the grasping m
- John did not deny the competence of the court of peers, and
- The bearers of this base proposal were admitted to the palac
- The barons sent Stephen Langton to Rome to plead their cause
- Feasts and frolics, songs, dancing, and pageantry, were the
- Authorities are divided as to whether the Pope was persuaded
- The Saracens let them alone, only now and then launching vol
- There was real need in Guienne; for Alfonso, King of Castile
- So died the Earl of Leicester, termed, by the loving people
- The murderers were never traced out, and the remissness on t
- When Owayn ap Gwynned died, in 1169, the kingdom of Aberfraw
- But in the twentieth year of Edward’s reign came his great t
- On returning to Scotland, he assumed the title of Governor,
- When we yearly hear of Parliament granting the supplies ere
- Bruce, hoping to confuse them, divided his followers into th
- Edward and Piers landed at Scarborough, where the King was o
- All night there was the usual scene; the smaller and more re
- Clement V. actually died on the 20th of April; and while his
- Poor King Edward, amazed, and almost thinking her under a de
- Good Sir John of Hainault, accustomed to prick his heavy Fle
- Acre, the siege of,
- Hainault, Sir John of, heads Queen Isabel’s
- Ralph Flambard, Bishop of Durham, the friend of Rufus;