The history of Wallingford, Band 1 |
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2nd brass 3rd brass A.D. Emperor Abbey abbot Abingdon afterwards ancient Antoninus appears Atrebates Atrebatian Atrebatii authority barons Basset battle belonged Berks Berkshire Bishop Brien Fitzcount Britain British Britons Caerleon Cæsar called Calleva Calleva Atrebatum Camden Cassivellaunus Castle of Wallingford charter chief Church Cirencester Comius Conqueror considers Danes death denariis distance district Dobuni Domesday Book Dorchester Earl Edward England favour ford Gaul granted Henry Henry III Hill honour of Wallingford Horsley hundred Iter Itinerary John Julius Cæsar Kennett king king's kingdom land London lord manor mentioned miles Miles Crispin military neighbourhood Norman opinion Oxford Oxfordshire parish passage pence Plautius possession probably Ptolemy referred reign Richard river Thames Robert d'Oyley Roman road Roman station royal Saxon Chronicle says scutage Segontiaci shillings side Silchester Sinodun Stephen Stukeley supposed territory took place town trace tribes Venta Vindomis Wallingford Castle West Saxons Wigod William Winchester
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Seite 270 - Henry, by the grace of God, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Earl of Anjou...
Seite 156 - Wessex, over the counties of Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Berks, and the Isle of Wight, and left their new-acquired dominions to their posterity.
Seite 253 - England must pay the price of their services : our lands, our honours, must be the hire of these rapacious invaders. But suppose we should have the fortune to conquer for Stephen, what will be the consequence ? Will victory teach him moderation ? Will he learn from security that regard to our liberties, which he could not learn from danger ? Alas ! the only fruit of our good success will be this ; the estates of the Earl of Leicester, and others of our countrymen, who have now quitted the party of...
Seite 245 - They put knotted strings about men's heads and writhed them till they went into the brain. They put men into prisons where adders and snakes and toads were crawling, and so they tormented them. Some they put into a chest short and narrow and not deep, and that had sharp stones within, and forced men therein so that they broke all their limbs. In many of the castles were hateful and ^•rim things called rachenteges, which two or three men had enough to do to carry.
Seite 309 - Capella, and others. Given by the hand of the venerable father, R. Bishop of Chichester, our Chancellor, at Bruges, the first day of June, in the sixteenth year of our reign.
Seite 329 - Against slanderous reports or tales, to cause discord betwixt king and people.' (Westm. Primer, c. 34. anno 3. Edw. I.) That it had this effect is the opinion of an eminent writer : See ' Observations upon the Statutes, &c.
Seite 204 - ... many mills, and how many fish-ponds or fisheries belonged to it ; the value of the whole in the time of King Edward, as well as when granted by King William. They were likewise directed to return the tenants of every degree, the quantity of lands held by each of them, what was the number of villeins or slaves, and also the number and kinds of their cattle and live stock. Not only was the precise nature and value of the lands and tangible property throughout England, and the names and conditions...
Seite 204 - These commissioners were to be informed by the inhabitants, upon oath, of the name of each manor, and that of its owner ; also by whom it was held in the time of Edward the Confessor ; the number of hides ; the quantity of wood, of pasture, and...
Seite 182 - Both the name and the thing were new. To fortify a town, to build a citadel to protect a town, were processes with which England had long been familiar. To contribute to such necessary public works was one of the three immemorial obligations from which no Englishman could free...
Seite 330 - Hevede he nou here the Erl of Waryn, Shulde he never more come to is yn, Ne with sheld, ne with spere, ne with other gyn, to help of Wyndesore.