epub |eng | | Author:Barlow, Frank.

THE FARMS OF THE BISHOPRICS (all figures are per annum) Diocese Domesday Value Typical farm in Henry II's reign1 Suggested figure for William IIs' reign Canterbury 1,3242 1,350 1,350 Chichester3 ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Miller

CHAPTER TEN King and Parliament (February to November 1685) Three days after Charles died, James announced his intention to summon a Parliament. He also announced that he would continue to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gillingham, John.

Not everyone was so optimistic. Saladin continued to send out patrols and raiding parties, concentrating on the Jaffa road. Imad al-Din reports a particularly successful ambush on a Frankish caravan ...

epub |eng | | Author:E.A. Smith

Chapter 14 REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER One of the major causes of George’s unpopularity as Regent was his supposed cruel treatment of his daughter Charlotte. She was growing up to be a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Hollister, C. Warren,Frost, Amanda Clark.

Chapter 7 THE LAST BATTLES In various ways the calamity of the White Ship cast its shadow into the future. Much of Henry I's political activity during the years that ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Stephen Brennan

“Stripped of her sails, she forges ahead to her chosen berth . . .” For a ship with her sails furled on her squared yards, and reflected from truck to ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Richard Barber [Barber, Richard]

3 His Achievements Henry created an empire of his own. He was King of England, overlord of Scotland and Ireland and much of Wales. In France he was overlord of ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:W M Ormrod

The relations between Church and state under Edward III provide some interesting insights into royal policy, and obviously invite comparison with what was going on in secular politics at the ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Anne Curry [Curry, Anne]

Callous as this act appears to be (other sources suggest prisoners were killed by weapons too), Henry had been placed in a vulnerable position. To protect his own men, he ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ormrod, W. M.

Chapter 14 THE RANSOMING OF RULERS , 1356–1360 If any confirmation was needed of the invincibility of English arms after the time of Crécy and Neville's Cross, then the battle ...

epub |eng | | Author:J. J. Scarisbrick

Primary responsibility for the conduct of Henry's affairs at the Curia lay with two English envoys, William Benet and Edward Carne, able and stout‐hearted men, but of small status – ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Andy King [King, Andy]

Meanwhile, after protracted negotiations, an agreement to end the Anglo-French war had been reached in June 1299. The planned marriage alliance was revived, and on 10 September, attended by great ...

epub |eng | 1948-01-02 | Author:Frank B. Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey [Gilbreth, Frank B. & Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth]

Dad acquired the Rena to reward us for learning to swim. She was a catboat, twenty feet long and almost as wide. She was docile, dignified, and ancient. Before we ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, I (1956), 383–4. 2 Elizabeth Jenkins, The Princes in the Tower (1978), a sober account, summing up against Richard III; ...

azw3 |eng | 1999-07-10 | Author:S. B. Chrimes [Chrimes, S. B.]

1 On the subject generally, see Chrimes, English constitutional ideas in the fifteenth century 192–203, 249–53. For Fortescue’s assertion, see R.P., V, 239. 2 R. Steele (ed.) A bibliography of ...