The Life of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius; His Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals: Being a Chronographical History of All the Kings and Memorable Passages of This Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King C
The Life of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius; His Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals: Being a Chronographical History of All the Kings and Memorable Passages of This Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King C
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ...former strength and virtue, fighting without fear, insomuch that the king's vaward gave back and left their places. In this battle the father spared not the son, nor the son the father, (such was the misery of those home-bred wars) insomuch that the field was every where strewed wilh dead bodies, for the fight ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ...former strength and virtue, fighting without fear, insomuch that the king's vaward gave back and left their places. In this battle the father spared not the son, nor the son the father, (such was the misery of those home-bred wars) insomuch that the field was every where strewed wilh dead bodies, for the fight continued the greatest part of the day; at last the victory fell to the barons, so that were taken the king, the king of the Romans, and prince Edward, with 25 baron and banerets, and the people slain on both sides amounted to above 20,000. These royal prisoners being put in safe keeping, a peac- was afterwards debated, and at length concluded, and the/ released, but it proved to small purpose, for many battlei were alterwards fought between thein, in which, sometimes the king, nnd sometimes the barons had the better, (the circumstances are too long to relate) in which prince Edward bore himself bravely. In process, the 55ih year of this king's reign, the king of the Romans made atonement between the king his brother, and Gilbert dc Clare, earl of G'locester, who had continued the wars of the barons, upon condition that he should take a voyage into the Holy Land for the king, for which he should have, towards his charge, 8,000 marks in hand, and when he was on ship board, 4,000 more, and to be ready the first of May next following: but this failing in him, prince Edward undertook it in his stead. And the year afterwards, about the end of March, died Richard, emperor of Almnin, king of the Romans, and earl of Cornwall, being the king's brother, after he had governed the empire between 15 and 16 years, and was buried at Hales, an abbey of while monks, which he had before time founded. And the year following, upon the Ib'th day of...
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