History of England from the Earliest to the Present Time: The History During the Early and Middle Ages

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

ISBN 10: 1130962628 / ISBN 13: 9781130962628

Editore: General Books, Memphis, 2012

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Light gray pictorial soft cover with white lettering on front cover and spine, cover shows light scuffing and creasing. Binding tight, pages white and clean, no markings. 204 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.

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• Titolo: History of England from the Earliest to the Present Time: The History During the Early and Middle Ages
• Editore: General Books, Memphis
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1130962628
• ISBN 13: 9781130962628
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Near Fine

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... yet in process of formation; and each of the nobles and gentry, in his fear that his own castle or manor-house would be attacked, kept at home, with all the retainers that he could muster for his own protection. Counties Of the extent of the insurrection there can be no thTinsur-11 doubt. There is clear documentary proof that it knotTM to embraced Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, have raged. Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, and at least southern Yorkshire. The muster The Kentish, Essex, and Surrey insurgents adgenteat vanced on the metropolis, under Wat Tyler. They Hack-mustered at Blackheath on the 11th of June, and their numbers are said to have amounted to 100,000. A statute passed in the Parliament held in 1383 provides for the acquittal of all who had been among the late insurgents, but who could prove that they joined the insurgents under compulsion. It contains also various directions as to the mode of proof of such compulsion. It is directed, in its heading, to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, who are strictly commanded to see it and other statutes on the subject proclaimed and observed. At the foot of the statute is a memorandum that a similar mandate was sent to the Sheriffs of each of the other counties which I have mentioned in the text. These counties had evidently all been scenes of insurrection. The young King Richard was in the Tower of London, Chap. protected by a very slender guard of knights and men-ill at-arms. With the King were his Chancellor, Simon Weak state of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury; his Treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, and others of his councillors...