...terrace was carried round the thick wall.. In the time of Boniface the Eighth, who was fovereign Pontiff at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, and was of the family of Gartani, this family creeted a tower with turrets on the monument, to defend...

...of the fhepherd : Many other animals afforded nourifhing fiefh ; while fheep alone yielded wool : In the end of the thirteenth, and the beginning of the fourteenth century, flocks of fheep, were confiderably numerous in Scotland ; although lefs fo, perhaps, than herds of...

...terrace was carried round the thick wall. In the time of Boniface the Eighth, who was fovereign Pontiff at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century, and was of the family of Gartani, this family eredled a tower with turrets on the monument, to defend...

...however, that at last he died in opulence. ' PLANUDES (MAXIMUS), a Greek monk of Constantinople, who lived at the end of the thirteenth, and the beginning of the fourteenth century, is the author of a " Life of yEsop," full of anachronisms, absurdities, and falsehoods ; and of 1 49...

...been ofttu printed. — Dunce or Dnnse [Johannes Dunscotti*] was a very learned man, who lived about the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century. It is uncertain whether he was born iu Scotland or England; but from the epitaph on his tomb it appears,...

...collection of narrative and lyrical poems, possessing considerable intrinsic merit. They were composed at the end of the thirteenth, and the beginning of the fourteenth century ; some of them are probably of a still earlier date. The fortunate discoverer of these relics has edited...

....¿EGI'DIUS, surnamed ROMA'NUS, was a celebrated theologian and scholastic philosopher, who lived about the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century of our cera. He belonged to the ancient and illustrious Roman family of the Columnas (Colonnas). Hence...

...took the most provident measures to prevent the imperial power from regaining its vast preponderance. At the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century the emperors were chosen almost systematically out of different houses. Consciously or unconsciously,...

...the French boroughs their stormy liberty, and made them fall under the exclusive dominion either of royalty, or of the great suzerains whom they had for...communal liberties perish ; the boroughs cease to 21* belong to themselves, to govern themselves. Open the Recueil des Ordonnanccs des Rois, you will...

...sepulchre ? De la Roque regards it as very doubtful. fie it as it may, ennoblements were very rare at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century. Three are cited under Philip the Handsome, one under Louis the Tenth, four under Philip the Long, five...