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... queen , becoming jealous of him , ftrangled him in bed , in the 20th year of ... Scots , Picts , and Saxons . He alfo built Whithorn . The venerable Bede ... Scots comprehended the western islands , toge with the counties of Argyle ...
... queen , becoming jealous of him , ftrangled him in bed , in the 20th year of ... Scots , Picts , and Saxons . He alfo built Whithorn . The venerable Bede ... Scots comprehended the western islands , toge with the counties of Argyle ...
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... Queen's Ferry . Malcolm no fooner venge upon the Northumbrians ; then he ... Scots had ever encountered , as where he remained for fome time upon the de ... queen , , the parties immediately dilagreed . In 1072 , William having greatly ...
... Queen's Ferry . Malcolm no fooner venge upon the Northumbrians ; then he ... Scots had ever encountered , as where he remained for fome time upon the de ... queen , , the parties immediately dilagreed . In 1072 , William having greatly ...
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... queen reprefented to her husband , and prevailed upon him to fet about the work of re- formation immediately ; in which , however , he met with confiderable oppofition . The Scots , accustomed to opprefs their inferiors , thought all ...
... queen reprefented to her husband , and prevailed upon him to fet about the work of re- formation immediately ; in which , however , he met with confiderable oppofition . The Scots , accustomed to opprefs their inferiors , thought all ...
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... Scots continued in subjection to the English until the acceflion of Richard I. This monarch being a man of romantic ... queen Scotland lived , a perfect harmony fubfifted tween the Scots and English : but in 1239 , Joan died without ...
... Scots continued in subjection to the English until the acceflion of Richard I. This monarch being a man of romantic ... queen Scotland lived , a perfect harmony fubfifted tween the Scots and English : but in 1239 , Joan died without ...
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... Scots kings of thofe who kept them in thraldom , fome of wark coronation we ... queen upon at the throne , in the Gaelic , the genealogy the borders . From ... Scots affairs queen immediately informed them of the thral- that time ; for ...
... Scots kings of thofe who kept them in thraldom , fome of wark coronation we ... queen upon at the throne , in the Gaelic , the genealogy the borders . From ... Scots affairs queen immediately informed them of the thral- that time ; for ...
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Page 377 - A treatife on the f-ibjeft was publiihcd in the year 1762, in which many tales were told of perfons whom the author . believed to have been favoured, or haunted, with thefe illuminations ; but...