The History of the Castle, Town, and Port of DoverLongmans, Green, and Company, 1899 - 462 pages |
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... earls . An Englishman , Godwine , was Earl of the West Saxons , and was , therefore , under the king , responsible for the government of Kent . He died in 1053 , and was succeeded by Harold , his second son , who died at Senlac in 1066 ...
... earls . An Englishman , Godwine , was Earl of the West Saxons , and was , therefore , under the king , responsible for the government of Kent . He died in 1053 , and was succeeded by Harold , his second son , who died at Senlac in 1066 ...
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... Earl Godwine , knowing that Eustache had begun the quarrel , espoused the cause of the townsmen , and an irruption of the Welsh seems to have turned the king's attention in another direction . Four years after this , in 1052 , Count ...
... Earl Godwine , knowing that Eustache had begun the quarrel , espoused the cause of the townsmen , and an irruption of the Welsh seems to have turned the king's attention in another direction . Four years after this , in 1052 , Count ...
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... Earl Godwine the third . . . . The burgesses gave the king 20 ships once a year for 15 days , and in each ship were 20 men . This they did in return for his having endowed them with sac and soc . When the king's messenger came there he ...
... Earl Godwine the third . . . . The burgesses gave the king 20 ships once a year for 15 days , and in each ship were 20 men . This they did in return for his having endowed them with sac and soc . When the king's messenger came there he ...
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... Earl of Gloucester defeated de Montfort at Evesham , who with his son Henry , the Warden , was slain during the fight . Entirely committed as it was to the late earl's cause , Dover still further opposed the king by making itself the ...
... Earl of Gloucester defeated de Montfort at Evesham , who with his son Henry , the Warden , was slain during the fight . Entirely committed as it was to the late earl's cause , Dover still further opposed the king by making itself the ...
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... Earl of Lancaster , who at that time was governing the kingdom , did his best to keep the peace on the narrow seas , for we find an order issued in March , 1316 , to the Warden " to proceed in person to the five ports , and all others ...
... Earl of Lancaster , who at that time was governing the kingdom , did his best to keep the peace on the narrow seas , for we find an order issued in March , 1316 , to the Warden " to proceed in person to the five ports , and all others ...
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