England a Continental Power, 1066-1216, Part 2 |
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Page 33 - Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, — for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger ; some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich ; some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these.
Page 33 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 59 - This speech recalls the words addressed by the English to Henry I when he had humbled Robert of Belesme : but the circumstances were very different. The people had then...
Page 21 - Henry i_.s to give the land peace, justice, and equity, charter. Afterwards he gave the people a charter in which he promised to free the Church from all unjust burdens, and the land from all evil customs; he gave back to the people their old laws, and promised to reform all the abuses which had crept in during the Red King's reign. We must remember this charter, because it states 'very clearly for the first time the rights of the people. It puts bounds to the power of the king by saying that the...
Page 66 - Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of John." The terrible verdict of his contemporaries has passed into the sober judgment of history.
Page 14 - He forbade killing the deer and the boars,' the old English chronicle tells us : 'he loved the tall stags as if he were their father. The rich complained and the poor murmured, but he was so stark that he recked nought of them ; they must will all what the king willed, if they would live.
Page 51 - Now," he said, as he turned his face to the wall, "let things go as they will — I care no more for myself or for the world.