 | Matthew Paris - Great Britain - 1853 - 572 pages
...now his enemies no longer dared to grumble against him. Of the dreadful ravages made in England by foreigners. During all this time, through the many-shaped...became worse than the rest. If any one who had been grievously injured laid his complaint before the Poitevins, whose heads were turned by their vast riches... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 398 pages
...possessions, were forcibly seized on, and nothing was left as an indemnity for them, save tallages l and ridicule. On seeing these proceedings, some even...tyrants in England, and we ought to be kings, and tyrannise the same as others " ; and so they became worse than the rest. If any one who had been grievously... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 378 pages
...possessions, were forcibly seized on, and nothing was left as an indemnity for them, save tallages l and ridicule. On seeing these proceedings, some even...tyrants in England, and we ought to be kings, and tyrannise the same as others " ; and so they became worse than the rest. If any one who had been grievously... | |
 | Allen Rogers Benham - English literature - 1916 - 674 pages
...general, barons, knights, citizens, merchants and laborers and especially religious men, were laboring under a most pestilential infliction; for the higher...became worse than the rest. If any one who had been grievously injured laid his complaint before the Poitevins (ie Henry's foreign agents), whose heads... | |
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... lower classes so many laborious services, and harassed them by so many robberies and injuries, that of all nations existing, England appeared to be in the lowest condition. In one place the houses of merchants, in another their carts, and their small... 