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" ... could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate.... "
English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature - Page 21
by Henry Morley - 1888
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

1867 - 878 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them ; but this to them was...
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The History of England, Volume 1

Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 528 pages
...bishop's land nor abbot's, nor priest's, but robbed monks and clerks, and every man who was able another; if two or three men came riding to a town all the township fled before them, weening that they were robbers. The bishops and learned men cursed them evermore, but nought thereof...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1858 - 498 pages
...church-yard, but they took all that was valuable therein, and then burned the church and all together. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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History of the conquest of England by the Normans, tr. by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry - 1847 - 492 pages
...but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour, as much as he might. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: Its Causes, and ..., Volume 2

Augustin Thierry - 1847 - 494 pages
...but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour, as much as he might. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1850 - 610 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of ...

Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - 1850 - 614 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1850 - 612 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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Consuetudines Kanciae: A History of Gavelkind, and Other Remarkable Customs ...

Charles Sandys - 1851 - 408 pages
...priests ; but they robbed the monks and the clergy, and every man plundered his neighbour as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them...
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Outlines of the history of England, Volume 1

William Douglas Hamilton - 1852 - 200 pages
...an abbot's, or a priest's, but plundered both monks and clerks, and every man who was able another. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled for them, concluding them to be robbers. The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the...
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