 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 sayfa
...intolerable exactions of tribute, the rapine of purveyance, the iniquity of royal courts, are continually in their mouths. " God sees the wretched people,"...possessions, then butchered. This was a grievous year (11^4). Whoever had any property, lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees."* The same ancient chronicle,... | |
 | Europe - 1847 - 202 sayfa
...endured at that period (1 103) on account of royal exactions." " God sees the wretched people," observes the Saxon chronicler, "most unjustly oppressed ; first...are despoiled of their possessions, then butchered." Dim recollections of the better times of Anglo-Saxon liberty, ere the proud and cruel Norman invaded... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 sayfa
...intolerable exactions of tribute, the rapiño of purveyance, the iniquity of royal courts, are continually in their mouths. "God sees the wretched people," says...Chronicler, " most unjustly oppressed, first they arc despoiled of their possessions, then butchered. This »-аи a grievous year (1 124). Whoever had... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1852 - 224 sayfa
...Chronicler, e most unjustly oppressed ; first they are despoiled of their possessions, and then butchered. 5 This was a grievous year (1124). Whoever had any property, lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." — 2 Middle Ages, 43-5^6. " In the succeeding reign of J;hn, all the rapacious exactions usual to... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 698 sayfa
...oppressed; first they are despoiled of their possessions, then butchered. This was a grievous year (1124i). Whoever had any property, lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." t The same ancient * \V. Malmsbury, p. 120. et 156. R. J Chron. Saxon, p. 228. Non facile Hoveden,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1856 - 446 sayfa
...intolerable exactions of tribute, the rapine of purveyance, the iniquity of royal courts, are continually in their mouths. " God sees the wretched people,"...heavy taxes and unjust decrees."" The same ancient k W. Malmsbury, p. 120 et 156. R. " Chron. Saxon, p. 228. Non facile Hoveden, p. 461. Chron. Saxon,... | |
 | Horatio Prater - 1856 - 250 sayfa
...governors, " the Saxons in 1124, particularly, were despoiled of their possessions, then butchered. Whoever had any property lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." (Hallam's Middle Ages, Chap. viii., p. 31.). So "Peter the Cruel of Spain, (1350.) is said to have... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1857 - 312 sayfa
...strong language — ad exterminandum — but it would not seem to be too strong for the occasion : " God sees the wretched people," says the Saxon Chronicler,...oppressed; first, they are despoiled of their possessions, and then butchered. Whoever had any property lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." "It is not... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 sayfa
...kings oppressed the people by illegal taxation. " God sees the wretched people," says an old writer, "most unjustly oppressed ; first they are despoiled of their possessions, then butchered. Whoever had any property lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." Justice was frequently sold, and... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 374 sayfa
...grievously felt by all classes. The Saxon Chronicle under the year 1124 says, " God sees the wretched people most unjustly oppressed ; first they are despoiled...possessions, ^then butchered. This was a grievous year. Whoever had any property lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees." Hallam says, "The system of rapacious... | |
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... reigns we must have recourse to historians ; whose language, though vague, and perhaps exaggerated, is too uniform and impressive to leave a doubt of the tyrannical character of the government. The intolerable exactions of tribute, the rapine of purveyance,... 
