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But the Miss Kingsburys of the smaller county towns are an especial menace to such as Flamby, although charity rarely assumes the dimensions of a vice among any of the natives of England's southern shires. "And your father had intended that you should become a painter?"
To the north of Oxfordshire was Warwickshire, all the King's except Warwick Castle, though bordered by Northamptonshire, which was all the Parliament's; and farther north were the shires of Leicester, Nottingham, and Stafford, in each of which, though the Parliament held the county- town, the King had countervailing strongholds.
He had chosen a southern county as being far removed from those midland shires where the name of Hamley of Hamley was well and widely known; for he did not wish his wife to assume, if only for a time, a name which was not justly and legally her own. In all these arrangements he had willingly striven to do his full duty by her; and she repaid him with passionate devotion and admiring reverence.
To answer this end, the whole kingdom was divided into Shires, these into Hundreds, and the Hundreds into Tithings.
Now hear the financial phenomena attending military exploits, and a life of pillage. I give you them in this precise year, 1338, in which the King of England failed to the Florentines. "He obtained from the prelates, barons, and knights of the shires, one half of their wool for this year a very valuable and extraordinary grant.
Its members were chosen from among the most zealous opponents of the Court officials-the great barons, the priors, the important abbots of the shires and they were all men who had no connection with the Exchequer or the Curia Regis.
You and I together, not forgetting Comrade Jackson, the pet of the Smart Set, will toil early and late till we boost up this Postage Department into a shining model of what a Postage Department should be. What that is, at present, I do not exactly know. However. Excursion trains will be run from distant shires to see this Postage Department.
Climate, surrounding nature, differed from old England, and these and circumstance would work for variation. But the stock was Middlesex, Surrey, Devon, and all the other shires of England. Scotchmen came also, Welshmen, and, perhaps as early as this, a few Irish. And there were De La Warr's handful of Poles and Germans, and several French vinedressers.
19 Of the other ceremonies of the Russe church. Thirdly, the Oeconomie or priuate behauiour of the Russe containing these chapters. 1 Of the Emperors houshold officers, and order of his house. 2 Of the priuate behauiour and maner of the Russe people. The description of the countrey of Russia, with the bredth, length, and names of the Shires. The countrey of Russia was sometimes called Sarmatia.
On the other hand, a custom grew up in the tenth and early eleventh century of placing whole groups of shires under the government of great earls or viceroys, whose subjection to the central government of the king was but scant.
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