The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year MDCXLVIII. Volume 1 (Paperback)

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. 1842 Excerpt: ...Leach, ' Marshal, Porter, and others, which then held land in capite, and, without doubt, left these names to their posterity; albeit haply they are not mentioned in those tables of Battle Abbey of such as came in at the Conquest," The sad Case of the English. Coroll. VIII Now let me bespeak the reader's pity (though possibly his ingenuous sympathy hath given it before it was requested) for those poor Englishmen who were to find free-quarter for all these French. Where could their landlords lodge them? Or, rather, how could they long continue landlords, when such potent puests cai, e to tlieir houses? O the several ways which their necessities dictated unto them Some fought, as the Kentish, who capitulated for tlieir liberty. Some fled, as those in the North, into Scotland. Some hid themselves, as many, in middle England, in the Isle of Ely. Some, as those of Norfolk, traversed their title by law, and that with good success in the old age of kinjr William the Conqueror. Most betook themselves to patience; which taught many a noble hand to work, foot to travel, tongue to entreat; even thanking them for their courtesy, who were pleased to restore a shiver of their own loaf, which "they violently took from them. THE CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN. BOOK III. FROM THE COMING-IN OF THE NORMANS, UNTIL THE APPEARING OF JOHN WICLIFFE. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, LORD BEAUCHAMPE, &c, GRANDCHILD AND HEIR-APPARENT TO THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM, MARQUIS OF HERTFORD. Some there are who exact of every Christian, as a touchstone of their sincerity, to render an account of the exact time of their conversion, with the circumstances thereof, --how, when, and where performed. I must crave leave to enter myself a dissenter herein, conceiving such a demand unreasonable, ...