Feudal Manuals of English History: A Series of Popular Sketches of Our National History, Compiled at Different Periods, from the Thirteenth Century to the Fifteenth, for the Use of the Feudal Gentry and NobilityThomas Wright Published under the direction and at the expense of J. Mayer, 1872 - 184 páginas |
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Página iii - MANUALS OF ENGLISH HISTORY, a series of Popular Sketches of our National History compiled at different periods, from the Thirteenth Century to the Fifteenth, for the use of the Feudal Gentry and Nobility.
Página 110 - ... per terram quam per mare rapiendo et infra regnum vestrum receptando, mercatores et alios regni nostri incolas occidendo, hominesque nostros de regno nostro violenter in regnum vestrum abducendo, ipsosque ibidem detinendo et incarcerando ' ; super quibus reformandis nuncios nostros...
Página ix - ... as these for the instruction of his children. In the baronial hall, after dinner, when the lord of the manor was seated with his guests and followers around his table, songs were sung, and historical as well as romantic poetry was chanted, often connected with old questions of family or with the political movements of the time ; and...
Página ix - THE following pages contain a series of examples of a class of documents which have hitherto attracted little attention among antiquaries. They consist of rolls of vellum, on which was written with great care, in bold elegant handwriting, a synopsis of English history, from the earliest period to the time at which they were written. They are usually illustrated with drawings, sometimes illuminated, of the kings and their queens and children, whence they have been spoken of as genealogical rolls of...
Página 147 - Hie jacet errorum princeps et prsedo virorum, " Proditor Anglorum, fax livida, secta reorum, " Numen Wallorum, trux dux, homicida piorum, " Fex Trojanorum, stirps 2 mendax, causa malomm.
Página 111 - ... impressionem 7 vestram ex" tortis, manendo ; contra vos etiam ad defensionem nostram et " regni nostri, cujus defensioni et tuitioni vinculo juramenti sumus
Página 144 - Militiae splendor, gloria, lumen, apex; Julius ingenio, virtutibus Hector, Achilles Viribus, Augustus moribus, ore Paris.
Página 111 - ... tortis, manendo ; contra vos etiam ad defensionem nostram et " regni nostri, cujus defensión! et tuition! vinculo juramenti sumus " astricti, nos volentes erigere; fidelitatem et homagium vobis " facta,8 tarn a nobis quam ab alus quibuscumque regni nostri " incolis, fidelibus nostris, ratione terrarum, quas in regno vestro' " de vobis tenebant, et etiam ratione menagii seu retentionis " vestrae, nomine nostro, ac nomine eorundem omnium et singu" lorum, vobis reddimus per présentes.
Página 27 - Perceiving nature to be nearly exhausted, his friends requested him to give them a token that he departed in peace ; upon which he repeated the last words of the martyr Stephen, and breathed gently away.1 He died in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and in the eighth year of his banishment. From the account given of him, and the extracts produced from his letters, in the preceding part of this work, the reader will be able to form a correct idea of his character. The presbyterian ministers of that...
Página x - ... give us the amount of knowledge relating to the history of his country which it was considered that an English baron or gentleman of the feudal period ought to possess, as well as its special colour and character.