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When the King heard how Thomas à Becket had lost his life in Canterbury Cathedral, through the ferocity {fierceness} of the four Knigh ......
There was one tall Norman Knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the ......
Above all, it was in the Roman time, and by means of Roman ships, that the Christian Religion was first brought into Britain, and its people first tau ......
CHAPTER 9 ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS
William the Red, in breathless haste, secured [get] the three great forts of Dover, Pevensey, ......
It was a British Prince named Vortigern who took this resolution, and who made a treaty of friendship with Hengist and Horsa, two Saxon chiefs. Both o ......
CHAPTER 8 ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CONQUEROR
Upon the ground where the brave Harold fell, William the Norman afterwards founded an ......