 | Benjamin Thorpe - Great Britain - 1861 - 350 pages
...his body and brought it to England, and buried it at Reading. A good man he was, and there was great awe of him. No man durst misdo against another in...time. He made peace for man and beast. Whoso bare his burthen of gold and silver, no man durst say to him aught but good. In the meanwhile his nephew Stephen... | |
 | Benjamin Thorpe - Great Britain - 1861 - 352 pages
...England, and buried it at Keading. A good man he was, and there was great awe of him. No man dui'st misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast. Whoso bare his burthen of gold and silver, no man durst say to him aught but good. In the meanwhile his nephew Stephen... | |
 | John Langton Sanford - Great Britain - 1872 - 572 pages
...in the following emphatic words: ' A good man he was, and there was great awe of him. No man dared misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast. Whoso bore his burthen of gold and silver, no man dared say to him aught but good.' The Monk of Malmesbury... | |
 | John Langton Sanford - Great Britain - 1872 - 568 pages
...in the following emphatic words : ' A good man he was, and there was great awe of him. No man dared misdo against another in his time. He made peace for- man and beast. "VVhoso bore his burthen of gold and silver, no man dared say to him aught but good.' The Monk of Malmesbury... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...forty-four thieves were hanged in Leicestershire at one time. ' No man,' says the Saxon Chronicle, 'durst misdo against another in his time. He made...peace for man and beast. Whoso bare his burden of gold or silver, no man durst say to him aught but good.' J By severe punishments he effectually checked... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1885 - 424 pages
...rule. An Englishman of his day was able to say of him : " Good man he was, and great awe there was of him. No man durst misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast. Who so bare burden of gold or silver, no man durst say ought to him but good ; " while another historian... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - Constitutional history - 1886 - 870 pages
...forty-four thieves were hanged in Leicestershire at one time. ' No man,' says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ' durst misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast. Whoso bare his burden of gold or silver, no man durst say to him aught but good.' l By severe punishments he effectually checked... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman, Arthur Hassall - Constitutional history - 1891 - 394 pages
..."Renaissance," i. 551. land," says the English chronicler of the Conqueror ; of Henry I. in like manner : " No man durst misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast." Orderic puts the matter simply : " The foremost counts and lords of towns and audacious tyrants he... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Great Britain - 1894 - 568 pages
...anarchy and violence of Anglo-Saxon times, a land of unwonted order and peace. " A good man he was, and all men stood in awe of him. No man durst misdo...another in his time. He made peace for man and beast." Men came to speak of the laws of King Henry's days as they had hitherto spoken of the laws of King... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1894 - 328 pages
...land, for every man that could, forthwith robbed another. ... A good man he was and there was great awe of him. No man durst misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast." The barons had promised the dying king to place his daughter Matilda on the throne ; but the kingdom... | |
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A good man he was, and there was great awe of him. No man durst misdo against another in his time. He made peace for man and beast. 
