 | Great Britain - 1853 - 434 pages
...played with. He reigned over England, and so entirely did he understand it by his cunning policy, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who owned it, or how much it was worth; and afterwards he put it down in his writing. The land of the Britons... | |
 | Anglo-Saxon chronicle - 1853 - 448 pages
...played with. He reigned over England, and so entirely did he understand it by his cunning policy, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who owned it, or how much it was worth; and afterwards he put it down in his writing. The land of the Britons... | |
 | Benjamin Thorpe - Great Britain - 1861 - 350 pages
...that he had sinned with. /He reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ. Brytland (Wales) was in his power, and he therein wrought castles,... | |
 | Eben William Robertson - Scotland - 1862 - 582 pages
...amongst his contemporaries — as " England < darling." A northern bishop, and a few northern lores, held out with the northern Hereward, for a short time,..."good peace," with the but too familiar addition of excessiye * Chron. Sax. 1051, 1065. The with her family. Saintly motives surety usual reasons assigned... | |
 | John Langton Sanford - Great Britain - 1872 - 568 pages
...great evil to the other. He reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, and what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ. . . . Certainly in his time men had great... | |
 | William Smith - Great Britain - 1873 - 396 pages
...He reigned over England," says the Chronicler, " and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ." This writ was the famous Domesday Book, made in 1086, which we... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1885 - 578 pages
...Chronicle relates : " He (William) reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ."2 Its compilation then, as we gather,3 was determined on at Gloucester... | |
 | Oxford (England) - 1885 - 474 pages
...life the chronicler says ' He reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it that there was not a hide of land within England, that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, sad afterwards set it in his writ.' ' Domesday Survey, 1816, vol. ii. p. 450. The words are ' Anno... | |
 | James Parker - History - 1885 - 474 pages
...life the chronicler says ' He reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it that there was not a hide of land within England, that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ.' * Domesday Survey, 1816, vol. ii. p. ^50. The words are ' Anno... | |
 | Archives - 1891 - 344 pages
...Chronicle relates : ' He (William) reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ.'2 Its compilation then, as we gather,3 was determined on at Gloucester... | |
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He reigned over England, and by his sagacity so thoroughly surveyed it, that there was not a hide of land within England that he knew not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it in his writ. 
