History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: With Its Causes from the Earliest Period, and Its Consequences to the Present Time, Volume 3G.B. Whittaker, 1825 |
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alliance ancient Angliæ Anglo-Norman Anjou Anjouan Aquitaine archbishop arms army assembled barons bishops BOOK Bretons brother called Cambrian castles catholics cause century chevaliers chiefs church conquerors conquest count count of Mortain count of Toulouse counts of Foix court duke enemies English race father favour foreign Franciæ French Froissard Gascony Gaul gave Geoffroy Guil Guyenne Hanmer's Chron hatred Henry II Hist historians Ibid inhabitants insurgents insurrection Ireland king John king of England king of France king Philip king Richard king's kingdom Knyghton land language latter London lord Math Neubrig nobles Norman Normandy oath parliament party peace Poitevins Poitou political Pope population presbyterian provinces quòd regis reign royal Rymer Saxon says Scotch Scotland Script SECT sent serfs Sir Richard Musgrave sort territory tion took towns troops vassals Wales Wat Tyler Welsh William XVIII
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Page 242 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you let them not.
Page 236 - WILLIE'S large o' limb and lith, 'And come o' high degree ; And he is gane to Earl Richard, To serve for meat and fee. Earl Richard had but ae daughter, Fair as a lily flower j And they made up their love-contract Like proper paramour.
Page 174 - The period in futurity when this quarrel shall be terminated, it is impossible to foresee ; and aversion for England, its government, its manners, and its language, is still the native passion of the Irish race. From the day of the invasion, the will of that race of men has been constantly opposed to the will of its masters ; it has detested what they have loved, and loved what they have detested. They, whose long misfortunes were in great measure caused by the ambition of the popes, rushed into...
Page 504 - About the year 1381, all those who were called bonds in England, that is, all the cultivators, were serfs in body and goods, obliged to pay heavy aids for the small portion of land which served them to feed their families, and were not at liberty to give up that portion of land without the consent of the lords, for whom they were obliged to do gratuitously their tillage...
Page 246 - There is not much faith to be attached to the particulars it contains ; but we find in it many original traits, capable of communicating more forcibly to the reader the idea which the population of English race had formed of the moral character of those men who, in the ages of the national enlargement, chose rather to be bandits than slaves. " These men,
Page 13 - Hibernia, to subject that land to ' obedience to laws, to extirpate the seeds of vice, and also to ' procure the payment there to the blessed apostle Peter of the ' annual tribute of a penny for each house. Granting to this ' thy laudable and pious desire the favour which it merits, we hold ' it acceptable that, for the extension of the limits of...
Page 547 - ... the conquest of England by the Normans, their language disappeared, together with the inequality of civil condition, which separated the families that had sprung from the two races, or rather two tribes of the same blood. The reign of Henry VII. may be considered as the period when the distribution of ranks ceased to correspond in a general manner with that of races, and as the commencement of the state of society now existing in England. It was COMMERCE that conquered the Conquest, and gave...
Page 242 - ... Normans shared these popular diversions in common, without reflecting that they were a monument of the ancient hostility of their forefathers. On that day the churches were deserted as well as the workshops ; no saint, no preacher, had greater prescription than Robin Hood on his feast; and its observance lasted even after the Reformation had lent a new stimulus to religious zeal in England. This fact is attested by a Church of England bishop of the sixteenth century, the celebrated and venerable...
Page 496 - Montfort, to borrow the eloquent language of M. Thierry, " the old patriotic superstition of the English was awakened in his favour. Being an enemy to the foreigners, and, as a contemporary writer expresses it, a defender of the rights of lawful property, he was honoured with the same title as the popular gratitude had conferred upon those who, in the time of the Norman invasion, had devoted themselves in defence of the country. Simon, like them, received the appellation of defender of the natives....