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Updated: June 29, 2025
Here mamma, not having money, perhaps, but metal more attractive, stakes her virgin daughter against Count Fettacker's forests and meadows; or Lord Lackland plays his coronet, of which the jewels have long since been in pawn, against Miss Bags' three-per-cents.
"As Paris is always crammed with a number of Austrians in heart who are charmed at the sad events," writes the advocate Barbier, "they have put in the Bastille some indiscreet individuals who said in open cafe that the emperor was John Lackland, and that a room would have to be fitted up for him at Vincennes.
"Lord lumme, that Miss Lackland ain't never satisfied. 'I'll take 'em on the Martha, says she, 'and you can go back and fill up again." "But I told her it couldn't be done," Munster went on. "I told her the Martha hadn't a license for recruiting. 'Oh, she said, 'it can't be done, eh? and she stood and thought a few minutes."
"And the land which you are no judge of yet, but you will is as good as it is pretty," said King Corny, "which I am glad of for your sake, Prince Harry; I won't have you, like that donny English prince or king, they nicknamed Lackland. No: you sha'n't lack land while I have it to let or give. I called you prince Prince of the Black Islands and here's your principality.
How did she happen to buy it?" "First, the schooner Martha," the skipper answered, checking his replies off on his fingers. "Second, the Martha is on the outside reef at Poonga-Poonga, looted clean of everything portable, and ready to go to pieces with the first bit of lively sea. And third, Miss Lackland bought her at auction.
RICHARD, aged sixteen; GEOFFREY, fifteen; and JOHN, his favourite, a young boy whom the courtiers named LACKLAND, because he had no inheritance, but to whom the King meant to give the Lordship of Ireland. All these misguided boys, in their turn, were unnatural sons to him, and unnatural brothers to each other.
During the first six, it was with some of his great French vassals, the Count of Champagne, the Duke of Burgundy, and even the Count of Flanders, sometime regent, that Philip had to do battle, for they all sought to profit by his minority so as to make themselves independent and aggrandize themselves at the expense of the crown; but, once in possession of the personal power as well as the title of king, it was, from 1187 to 1216, against three successive kings of England, Henry II., Richard Coeur de Lion, and John Lackland, masters of the most beautiful provinces of France, that Philip directed his persistent efforts.
"What a wit the Count has!" whispered the Duchess of Lackland, who had not yet given up all hope of the elder brother. "Wit!" said the Lady Hasselton; "poor child, he is a perfect simpleton!"
Originally a pagan temple, built by the Catieuchlans for the Mogons, ancient English gods, it became a palace for Ethelwolf and a fortress for Edward the Confessor; then it was elevated to the dignity of a prison, in 1199, by John Lackland. Such was Southwark Jail.
As long as there was an orderly sovereign, such as Henry II. the unlimited power of the Crown was tolerable; under a reckless, impetuous prince like Coeur de Lion, it was a grievance; and, in a tyrant such as John Lackland, it became past endurance. His fines were outrageous extortion, and here and there the entries in the accounts show the base, wanton bribery in his court.
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