Then called he all the baronage together to wit what was the best counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Parliament, and the baronage was to be represented by twelve commissioners. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
Prestcote was a man of the shire himself, and knew the local baronage at least by name and repute. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
The baronage wrested from the crown those liberties which finally became the common property of all. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
The estates of clergy, baronage, and commons are the Platonic classes of guardians, auxiliaries, and farmers. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
King were unheeded, and the mercenaries were inadequate when John was confronted by the whole baronage in arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
There are among the baronage some families who use several personal variations among their many members and branches. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
King Stephen waited to attend High Mass before gathering all his baronage about him and setting forth briskly for Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
The crusade gave Englishmen their first taste of Eastern adventure, but drew few except the adventurous portion of the baronage. From Wordnik.com. [b. The British Isles] Reference
And those three, one royal, two from the ranks of the baronage, the only women in this precinct among the entire nobility of the land. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
The baronage, angered by Gaveston, followed the leadership of Edward's nephew, Thomas, duke of Lancaster, an ambitious, incompetent person. From Wordnik.com. [b. The British Isles] Reference
He had invited submission without penalty, as he moved north against the rebel holds, and the local baronage had held off from him with contempt. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
Stuart predecessors had looked on the Scotch baronage. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference
The sovereign again stood alone in the face of the baronage. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference
Florence tell of the ceaseless war between baronage and people. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
But the crown was still stronger than any force of the baronage. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
Almost the whole English baronage under the leadership of Simon de. From Wordnik.com. [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference
A meeting of the whole baronage of Normandy was held at Lillebonne. From Wordnik.com. [William the Conqueror] Reference
But the baronage or squirearchy of the country were of another mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference
From the first his aim was to free the Crown from the control of the baronage. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
The old baronage was thus hardly crushed before a new aristocracy took its place. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference
And as there was no "people," so in the mediæval sense of the word there was no "baronage.". From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
While the baronage was dashing itself to pieces in battle after battle justice went on undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
If he struck at the baronage, it was through Lady Salisbury, in whose veins flowed the blood of kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference
There have been great men whose death put a third or fourth part of the baronage of England into mourning. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Vacarius, roused the jealousy of the English monarchy and baronage by teaching Roman law in the schools of Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The statement which attributes the lessening of the baronage to the Wars of the Roses seems indeed to be an error. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
By means such as these feudalism had been humbled and the long strife with the baronage brought at last to a close. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference
Her right to the throne was asserted by a deed which proved how utterly the baronage now lay at the mercy of the king. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
It was the bows of the English yeomanry that won the fight at Crecy, fully as much as the prowess of the Norman baronage. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Broken as was the strength of the baronage, there still remained lords whom the new monarch watched with a jealous solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
Still we have here one of the causes which broke the unity of the baronage, which created a royalist party, and led to open war. From Wordnik.com. [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference
By reason of the withdrawal of some of the abbots and the decline of the baronage, in the fifteenth century the body was yet smaller. From Wordnik.com. [The Governments of Europe] Reference
Among the few great houses who recalled the might of the older baronage two families of the northern border stood first in power and repute. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
He ruled those women by virtue of his superior mentality, his great wealth, and the high place he occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii] Reference
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