 | 1844 - 784 էջ
...animosities of the provincial nobles waxing hot, castles had arisen in every part of the country, and there were in England as many kings, or rather tyrants, as there were owners to these fortresses. They so wasted with rapine and fire, the fairest regions, that in districts... | |
 | John Winter Jones - 1823 - 264 էջ
...quodammodo, tot reges vel potius tyranni, quot domini castellorum. There were in England, in effect, as many kings, or rather tyrants, as there were lords of castles. p. 264. Regalia. Royalties. p. 266. Ad hoc autem creatus est et electus, ut justitiam faciat universis.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1844 - 766 էջ
...animosities of the provincial nobles waxing hot, castles had arisen in every part of the country, and there were in England as many kings, or rather tyrants, as there were owners to these fortresses. They so wasted with rapine and fire, the fairest regions, that in districts... | |
 | 1877 - 668 էջ
...during the anarchy in Stephen's reign " there were in England as many kings— tyrants, rather — as there were lords of castles ; each had the power of striking his own coin, and of exercising, like a king, sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents." Have any of these baronial coins been preserved... | |
 | 1856 - 444 էջ
...castles had been erected in the several provinces ; and there were now in England, in a certain measure, as many kings, or rather tyrants, as there were lords of castles ; each coining his own money, and possessing a power, similar to that of kings, in dictating laws to their... | |
 | 1877 - 574 էջ
...during the anarchy in Stephen's reign " there were in England as many kings— tyrants, rather — as there were lords of castles ; each had the power of striking his own coin, and of exercising, like a king, sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents." Have any of these baronial coins been preserved... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1874 - 658 էջ
...struggle, numbers of castles had Feudal sprung up. There were in England as many kings, tyrants rather, as there were lords of castles ; each had the power of striking his own coin, and of exercising like a king sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents. And as every one sought for himself such pre-eminence,... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1880 - 850 էջ
...castles had Feudal sprung up. There were in England as many kings, tyrants ,. .', p., I,P-». rather^ ag there were lords of castles; each had the power of striking his own coin, and of exercising like a king sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents. And as every one sought for i. i himself such... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1883 - 748 էջ
...struggle, uurnbers of Feudal castles had sprung up. There were in England as many kings, tyrants rather, as there were lords of castles ; each had the power of striking his own coin 1, and of exercising like a king sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents. And as every one sought... | |
 | John Anthony Sparvel-Bayly - 1889 - 248 էջ
...were reduced to so degraded a condition that it was accounted shame to be called an Englishman, and there were in England as many kings, or rather tyrants, as there were castles, the owners thereof soon arrogating to themselves royal power, not only within the walls of... | |
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There were in England as many kings, tyrants rather, as there were lords of castles ; each had the power of striking his own coin, and of exercising like a king sovereign jurisdiction over his dependents. 
