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The bonds of unwritten custom which the older grants did little more than recognize had proved too weak to hold the Angevins; and the baronage now threw them aside for the restraints of written law.
A new step in our financial history was attained when this tax on trade steps into the place so long held by the taxes on land, from which the Normans and Angevins had derived their enormous revenue. The statute of Westminster the First had a long series of fellows.
I am but a doting old woman, whose only influence lies in her prayers and repentance." "No, mother; speak, you are the cleverest of us all." "Useless; I have only ideas of the last century; at my age it is impossible I should give good counsel." "Well, then, mother, refuse me your counsel, deprive me of your aid. In an hour I will hang all the Angevins in Paris."
His claims ended at last in intrigues with the Norman nobles, and Henry hurried to the border to meet an Angevin invasion; but the plot broke down at his presence, the Angevins retired, and at the close of 1135 the old king withdrew to the Forest of Lions to die. "God give him," wrote the Archbishop of Rouen from Henry's death-bed, "the peace he loved."
Henry seems to have been the Pontifex Maximus of his day, while his care for the means of industrial communication points to that silent growth of the new mercantile class which the rule of the Angevins did so much to foster. But a memorial of him, hardly less universal, is the Lazar-house or hospital.
Fulk Nerra, Fulk the Black, is the greatest of the Angevins, the first in whom we can trace that marked type of character which their house was to preserve through two hundred years. He was without natural affection. In his youth he burnt a wife at the stake, and legend told how he led her to her doom decked out in his gayest attire.
After this city was taken, Philip returned to France, where he continued to profit by the crimes and dissensions of the Angevins, and gained, both as their enemy and as King of France.
"They must lie very low by this time." "Have they been killed?" cried Henri; "are they dead?" "Dead I fear " "And you laugh, wretch?" "Oh! my son, dead drunk." "Oh! Chicot, how you terrified me. But why do you calumniate these gentlemen?" "On the contrary, I praise them." "Be serious, I beg; do you know that they went out with the Angevins?" "Of course, I know it." "What was the result?"
The awful lesson of his life rests on the fact that the king who lost Normandy, became the vassal of the Pope, and perished in a struggle of despair against English freedom, was no weak and indolent voluptuary but the ablest and most ruthless of the Angevins. From the moment of his return to England in 1204 John's whole energies were bent to the recovery of his dominions on the Continent.
"In French, in good French, my lord, take care of your accent; they killed six thousand Angevins in Sicily because they pronounced Italian badly. Take care that the French do not take their revenge on you for the Sicilian vespers." "I will do my best." "The streets are full of armed men," continued D'Artagnan. "Are you sure that no one is aware of the queen's project?" Mazarin reflected.
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