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... the argument of this book . The materials are large , and one can only acknowledge the utmost obligation to Wood and Hearne and , among modern writers , to Dr. E. A. Freeman's ' English Towns and ' 6 Districts , ' Mr. J. R. Green's ' Ry.st.
... the argument of this book . The materials are large , and one can only acknowledge the utmost obligation to Wood and Hearne and , among modern writers , to Dr. E. A. Freeman's ' English Towns and ' 6 Districts , ' Mr. J. R. Green's ' Ry.st.
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... Wood , in the Auto- biography which he compiled from his Diaries , seems to antedate the use of terms , as when he speaks of Whigs in 1662 , and calls a Jewish coffee - house keeper a Jacobite in 1654 - unless , indeed , as the Jew came ...
... Wood , in the Auto- biography which he compiled from his Diaries , seems to antedate the use of terms , as when he speaks of Whigs in 1662 , and calls a Jewish coffee - house keeper a Jacobite in 1654 - unless , indeed , as the Jew came ...
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... woods of the Chil- terns might prevent much traffic by land , but boats passed easily along the river . It was while keeping watch over this frontier that Eadweard died in 925 at Farndon in Northants , and his son Ælfweard died soon ...
... woods of the Chil- terns might prevent much traffic by land , but boats passed easily along the river . It was while keeping watch over this frontier that Eadweard died in 925 at Farndon in Northants , and his son Ælfweard died soon ...
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... wooden fortress , guarded by palisades , was erected on the mound . The very situation of Oxford too made it almost a natural stronghold , since it only needed to dig out a ditch on the northern side , somewhere near the line afterwards ...
... wooden fortress , guarded by palisades , was erected on the mound . The very situation of Oxford too made it almost a natural stronghold , since it only needed to dig out a ditch on the northern side , somewhere near the line afterwards ...
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... wood and the coppice . " The low hills were not yet cleared , nor the fens and the wolds trimmed and enclosed . Centuries later , when the early students came , they had to ride through the thick forest and across the moor to the East ...
... wood and the coppice . " The low hills were not yet cleared , nor the fens and the wolds trimmed and enclosed . Centuries later , when the early students came , they had to ride through the thick forest and across the moor to the East ...
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