Comic History of England

in the several counties of England; and this "Domesday-book," as it was called, formed the basis for subsequent taxation, etc. There were then thr

rything-especially the treasure-before his father was fully deceased, and by fair promises solid

o making it hot for Henry, who, being a younger brother, objected to wearing the king's cast-off reigning clothes. He was at last forced to submit, however,

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as gold and silver communion services and other bric-à-brac, and free coinage was then first inaugurated. The king became so greedy that on the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury he made himself ex-officio archbishop, so that he might handle

incipality to England that he might raise money to do this; but when about to embark for the purpose of taking possession of this property, William II., the royal note-shaver, while hunti

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uelty to his people. He was a thick-set man with a red face, a debauchee of the deepest dye, mean in money matters, and as full of rum and mendacity as Sitt

to a higher degree than William, and knew the multiplication table up to seven times sev

own grocer would not trust him. He successfully f

oble was as ignoble as a phenomenal thirst and unbridled lust could make him. Every farm had a stone jail on it, in charge of a noble jailer. Feudal castles, full of malaria and surrounded by insanitary moats and poor plumbing, echoed the cry of th

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ken hearts of his people, but in history his name will stand out

, landed in England to lay claim to the throne, and after a great deal of ill feeling and much needed assassination, her son Henry, who had become quite a large prope

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or military purposes, for the king on short notice might raise an army by calling on

crevices through the wall by day, and by means of a saucer of tallow and a string or rush which burned during the night and served mainly to show how dark it was. There was a front yard or fighting-place around this, surrounded by a high wall, and t

on had a studio. Sometimes they did not get out at all, but died there in their s

land were the "villains." This need not surprise us, when we rememb

hand night or day when the baron needed some one to kick. He was genera

ghthood and the early hardwa

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