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... nobility , acted systematically with a view to restrain the royal power . Brunehaut , after many vicissitudes , and after having seen her two sons on the thrones of Austrasia and Burgundy , fell into the hands of Clotaire II . , king of ...
... nobility , acted systematically with a view to restrain the royal power . Brunehaut , after many vicissitudes , and after having seen her two sons on the thrones of Austrasia and Burgundy , fell into the hands of Clotaire II . , king of ...
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... nobility . They had received a less tincture of Ro- man policy . They were nearer to the mother country , which had been , as the earth to Antæus , the source of perpetually recruited vigor . Burgundy , a member latterly of the Neus ...
... nobility . They had received a less tincture of Ro- man policy . They were nearer to the mother country , which had been , as the earth to Antæus , the source of perpetually recruited vigor . Burgundy , a member latterly of the Neus ...
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... nobility of that kingdom , to take up the cross , with all the indulgences usually held out as allurements to religious warfare ( A.D. 1208 ) . Though Philip would not interfere , a prodigious number of knights undertook this enterprise ...
... nobility of that kingdom , to take up the cross , with all the indulgences usually held out as allurements to religious warfare ( A.D. 1208 ) . Though Philip would not interfere , a prodigious number of knights undertook this enterprise ...
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... nobility , and a countless multitude of the common people . Numbers of women and children swelled the crowd ; it appeared a sort of sacrilege to repel any one from a work which was considered as the manifest design of Providence . But ...
... nobility , and a countless multitude of the common people . Numbers of women and children swelled the crowd ; it appeared a sort of sacrilege to repel any one from a work which was considered as the manifest design of Providence . But ...
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... nobility , which his arbitrary measures had provoked , broke out very opportunely for Philip , to thwart every ef fort for the recovery of Guienne by arms . But after re- peated suspensions of hostilities a treaty was finally con ...
... nobility , which his arbitrary measures had provoked , broke out very opportunely for Philip , to thwart every ef fort for the recovery of Guienne by arms . But after re- peated suspensions of hostilities a treaty was finally con ...
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Page 443 - Moreover, we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Page 518 - As the head of a body natural cannot change its nerves and sinews, cannot deny to the several parts their proper energy, their due proportion and aliment of blood; neither can a king, who is the head of a body politic, change the laws thereof, nor take from the people what is theirs, by right, against their consent.
Page 456 - But in the very second year of the son's reign they granted the twenty-fifth penny of their goods, '• upon this condition, that the king should take advice and grant redress upon certain articles wherein they are aggrieved.
Page 424 - Whether courts of justice framed the writ of Habeas Corpus in conformity to the spirit of this clause, or found it already in their register, it became from that era the right of every subject to demand it.
Page 418 - From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it. Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor; that is, for perversion of justice, or for delay. Sometimes they were paid by opposite parties, and, of course, for opposite ends.