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... council was held at Whitby , on the coast of Yorkshire , 664 , to decide when Easter should be observed . Delegates to that meeting were sent from different parts of the country . After a protracted discussion all the churches finally ...
... council was held at Whitby , on the coast of Yorkshire , 664 , to decide when Easter should be observed . Delegates to that meeting were sent from different parts of the country . After a protracted discussion all the churches finally ...
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... council held at Whitby ( §§ 42 , 48 ) laid the corner- stone of the National Church ; next , the people of Wessex furnished the National Overlord ( $ 49 ) ; finally , the preponderance of the people called Angles ( § 37 ) furnished the ...
... council held at Whitby ( §§ 42 , 48 ) laid the corner- stone of the National Church ; next , the people of Wessex furnished the National Overlord ( $ 49 ) ; finally , the preponderance of the people called Angles ( § 37 ) furnished the ...
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... Council of England ( § 81 ) , chose Harold . That settled the ques- tion , for the Council alone had the right to decide who should rule over the English people . Harold was soon afterward crowned ( January 16 , 1066 ) . 68. Duke ...
... Council of England ( § 81 ) , chose Harold . That settled the ques- tion , for the Council alone had the right to decide who should rule over the English people . Harold was soon afterward crowned ( January 16 , 1066 ) . 68. Duke ...
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... Council of the Witan , or Wise Men . It is an open question whether every freeman had the right to attend this national council , 1 but , in practice , the right became confined to a small number of the nobles and clergy . 81. What the ...
... Council of the Witan , or Wise Men . It is an open question whether every freeman had the right to attend this national council , 1 but , in practice , the right became confined to a small number of the nobles and clergy . 81. What the ...
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... Council ( § 80 ) , London unanimously chose Stephen King ( 1135 ) . The fatal defect in the new King was the absence of executive ability . Following the example of Henry ( § 135 ) , he issued two charters or pledges of good government ...
... Council ( § 80 ) , London unanimously chose Stephen King ( 1135 ) . The fatal defect in the new King was the absence of executive ability . Following the example of Henry ( § 135 ) , he issued two charters or pledges of good government ...
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Página 150 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Página 347 - India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common...
Página xxviii - Charter and the law of the land ; and by the said Great Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of parliament...
Página 241 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página xxix - ... commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Página xxix - ... of late, divers commissions, under your majesty's great seal, have issued forth, by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners, with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law...
Página xxviii - Law of the Land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by Authority of Parliament, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, should be put out of his Land or Tenements, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to Death, without being brought to answer by due Process of Law : V.
Página 267 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 192 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Página 215 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.