| An ecumene in the lands below the winds. |
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| The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world. |
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| The water of Lhasa is of all lands, But nectar like chang and arak abound only in our birthland. |
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| Other plantation lands have become bungaloid subdivisions or luxury housing or golf courses. |
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| Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state. |
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| He sent her to Aquitaine and demanded that Richard give up his lands to his mother who would once again rule over those lands. |
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| Some appear to have been reluctant to take up lands in a kingdom that did not always appear pacified. |
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| The nobility of England were part of a single Norman culture and many had lands on both sides of the channel. |
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| In 1018, Roger de Tosny travelled to the Iberian Peninsula to carve out a state for himself from Moorish lands, but failed. |
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| In Richard's absence, Philip II overran large portions of Normandy and John acquired control of Richard's English lands. |
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| He left again in 1194 and battled Philip for five years, attempting to regain the lands seized during his captivity. |
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| They both overran much of Henry's remaining continental lands, further eroding the Angevins' power on the continent. |
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| Edward had restored the lands of the former Angevin Empire holding Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, Maine and the coastline from Flanders to Spain. |
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| Margaret's fortunes improved under Henry VIII and in February 1512 she was restored to the earldom of Salisbury and all the Warwicks' lands. |
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| With his new lands, Henry now possessed a much larger proportion of France than Louis. |
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| Geoffrey of Anjou's plans for the inheritance of his lands had been ambiguous, making the veracity of his son Geoffrey's claims hard to assess. |
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| On his return to the continent from England, Henry sought to secure his French lands and quash any potential rebellion. |
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| In 1164 Henry intervened to seize lands along the border of Brittany and Normandy, and in 1166 invaded Brittany to punish the local barons. |
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| The rebel barons were kept imprisoned for a short time and in some cases fined, then restored to their lands. |
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| Henry began to grant John more lands, mostly at various nobles' expense, and in 1177 made him the Lord of Ireland. |
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| This made it much harder for them to revolt against the king and defend all of their lands at once. |
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| Henry was about to sail for England to pursue his claim when his lands were attacked. |
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| He also gave unconquered kingdoms such as Cork, Limerick and Ulster to his men and left the Normans carving their lands in Ireland. |
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| Richard paid homage to Philip for the continental lands his father held then they attacked Henry together. |
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| Philip's nobles refused to attack the lands of an absent crusader, though Philip instead gained lands in Artois. |
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| To English historians the lands in France were an encumbrance, while French historians considered the union to be an English empire. |
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| Most of his life as king was spent on Crusade, in captivity, or actively defending his lands in France. |
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| While his father visited his lands from Scotland to France, Richard probably spent his childhood in England. |
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| Richard first destroyed and looted the farms and lands surrounding the fortress, leaving its defenders no reinforcements or lines of retreat. |
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| To raise still more revenue he sold the right to hold official positions, lands, and other privileges to those interested in them. |
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| Further, Eleanor championed the match, as Navarre bordered Aquitaine, thereby securing the southern border of her ancestral lands. |
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| Edward then captured Northampton from Montfort's son Simon, before embarking on a retaliatory campaign against Derby's lands. |
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| Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable lands. |
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| The king had a steady income from crown lands, and could also take up substantial loans from Italian and domestic financiers. |
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| Disputes began to emerge between those rebels who had expected the charter to return lands that had been confiscated and the royalist faction. |
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| On accession of the Prince to the English throne, the lands and title became merged with the Crown again. |
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| The increase in the Welsh population, especially in the lands of the principality, allowed for a greater diversification of the economy. |
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| Upon the heir's accession to the throne, the lands and title merged in the Crown. |
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| On 7 February 1301, the king granted to Edward all the lands under royal control in Wales, mainly the territory of the former Principality. |
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| These lands were added to the French crown, further empowering the Capetian family. |
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| For Edward, the homage did not imply the renunciation of his claim to the extorted lands. |
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| Through his mother, Richard Plantagenet also inherited the lands of the earldom of March, as well as the Mortimer claim to the throne. |
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| In response, Mortimer ravaged the lands of Lancaster and checked the revolt. |
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| Being attainted, only by a successful invasion could the Yorkists recover their lands and titles. |
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| Although a king could raise personal militia from his lands, he could only muster a significantly large army through the support of his nobles. |
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| The following year, Richard was rewarded with all the Neville lands in the north of England, at the expense of Anne's cousin, George Neville. |
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| He gained the forfeited lands of the Lancastrian John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, in East Anglia. |
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| The Tudor Government gained further revenue from the clerical lands by receiving rents from confiscated lands and by selling the lands. |
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| He was absolutely delighted with his new queen, and awarded her the lands of Cromwell and a vast array of jewellery. |
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| The programme was designed primarily to create a landed gentry beholden to the crown, which would use the lands much more efficiently. |
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| In an action with enduring historical import, Balboa claimed the Pacific Ocean and all the lands adjoining it for the Spanish Crown. |
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| The plague devastated Castilian lands between 1596 and 1602, causing the deaths of some 600,000 people. |
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| Thousands of Parliamentarian soldiers settled in Ireland on confiscated lands. |
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| Scotland and Ireland regained their Parliaments, some Irish retrieved confiscated lands, and the New Model Army disbanded. |
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| Today, the vacant lands and the croplands are almost gone and the count results reflect the change. |
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| Away, away, over lands and seas and space, on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind! |
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| Thomas Eric Peet Travelling Prize To encourage study of egyptology and prehistory of the Mediterranean lands and the Near East. |
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| Some widows in Brigstock also probably sold free bench lands, despite the customary restriction on such sales. |
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| The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way. |
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| Aethelbald of Mercia, looking to defend recently acquired lands, had built Wat's Dyke. |
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| The Celtic Sea takes its name from the Celtic heritage of the bounding lands to the north and east. |
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| Many lands previously unknown to Europeans were discovered during this period, though most were already inhabited. |
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| It did not mention Portugal, which could not claim newly discovered lands east of the line. |
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| He would become governor of discovered lands, but was to finance himself all exploration. |
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| The king heard of his expeditions in lands rich in gold and silver and promised to support him. |
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| As new lands were discovered, they were often assumed to be parts of this hypothetical continent. |
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| The colonization of the new easternmost lands of Russia and further onslaught eastward was led by the rich merchants Stroganovs. |
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| The Marcher Lords were progressively tied to the English kings by the grants of lands and lordships in England. |
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| The Domesday survey therefore recorded the names of the new holders of lands and the assessments on which their tax was to be paid. |
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| Moreover, this Latin spread into lands that had never spoken Latin, such as the Germanic and Slavic nations. |
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| In the schools of art, philosophy and rhetoric, the foundations of education were transmitted throughout the lands of Greek and Roman rule. |
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| To the Welsh, Lloegyr was a foreign land with a foreign populace, distinct from the lands and peoples of the Cymry. |
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| There are also remnant purebred American bison herds on public lands in North America. |
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| Typical habitat is open or semiopen grasslands, as well as sagebrush, semiarid lands, and scrublands. |
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| Stonehenge has changed ownership several times since King Henry VIII acquired Amesbury Abbey and its surrounding lands. |
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| State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands. |
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| Their territory was on the north side of the Thames estuary in current Essex and Suffolk, and included lands now located in Greater London. |
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| When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full. |
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| Their king, Prasutagus, secured his independence by leaving his lands jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor, Nero, in his will. |
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| When not campaigning, he toured his lands advertising his benevolence, and supporting the economy and the arts. |
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| Still, they had to handle an increasing tax rate and so they often abandoned their lands to survive in a city. |
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| Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century. |
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| The wealth of Edward's lands exceeded that of the greatest earls, but they were scattered among the southern earldoms. |
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| To control his new kingdom, William granted lands to his followers and built castles commanding military strongpoints throughout the land. |
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| Most of the income came from the ducal lands, as well as from tolls and a few taxes. |
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| But the families of Harold and his brothers did lose their lands, as did some others who had fought against William at Hastings. |
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| Waltheof, who had joined the revolt, submitted, along with Gospatric, and both were allowed to retain their lands. |
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| Ralph was at least part Breton and had spent most of his life prior to 1066 in Brittany, where he still had lands. |
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| The Vexin was a buffer state between Normandy and the lands of the French king, and Simon had been a supporter of William. |
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| Although Odo remained in confinement for the rest of William's reign, his lands were not confiscated. |
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| With only now and then the cordelle, and still more rarely the oars, they moved all day across the lands and waters that were once the fastnesses of the Baratarian pirates. |
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| It was very pleasant to find a young, bright, slim, rose-colored kinswoman all ready to recognize consanguinity when one came back from cousinless foreign lands. |
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| The deceased's sons would receive only whatever property and riches their father had settled upon them and whatever additional lands their uncle had acquired. |
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| To any man whom we have deprived or dispossessed of lands, castles, liberties, or rights, without the lawful judgement of his equals, we will at once restore these. |
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| Toulouse, while technically part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, had become increasingly independent and was now ruled by Count Raymond V, who had only a weak claim to the lands. |
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| In his absence the lands were ruled by seneschals and justiciars, and beneath them local officials in each of the regions carried on with the business of government. |
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| The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands and by difficulties with his eldest son. |
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| If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands? |
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| The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. |
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| From a base of territory in eastern Scotland north of the River Forth and south of the River Oykel, the kingdom acquired control of the lands lying to the north and south. |
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| The lands around Rouen became the core of the later duchy of Normandy. |
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| Henry was expected to provide for the future of his legitimate children, either through granting lands to his sons or marrying his daughters well. |
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| Although he further augmented his royal treasury through the seizure of church lands, Henry's heavy spending and long periods of mismanagement damaged the economy. |
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| Known for their unique ships, there is evidence of the Viking presence all over mainland Europe, as no lands with navigable waters or coastlines escaped their pillaging. |
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| The king marched through Edwin's lands and built a castle at Warwick. |
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| Word of his discovery of new lands rapidly spread throughout Europe. |
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| He attainted those who refused to submit to his rule, such as Jasper Tudor and his nephew Henry, naming them traitors and confiscating their lands. |
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| He then negotiated directly with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to move the line west, and allowing him to claim newly discovered lands east of it. |
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| A wrinkle in the cloth of time, a cry of soft caress and fragrant dreams to weld the metal fabric souls in blends so held in high regards across the lands and sky. |
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| With trouble clearly brewing, Henry attempted to defuse the situation by insisting that Richard and Geoffrey give homage to Young Henry for their lands. |
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| This income came from the Crown lands that Henry owned as well as from customs duties like tonnage and poundage, granted by parliament to the king for life. |
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| Also, due to the high level of administration of England and, to a lesser extent, Normandy, these areas were the only lands where revenue was consistently and relatively high. |
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| Tsar Ivan IV granted vast estates near the Urals as well as tax privileges to Anikey Stroganov, who organized large scale migration to these lands. |
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| Around 1577, Semyon Stroganov and other sons of Anikey Stroganov hired a Cossack leader called Yermak to protect their lands from the attacks of Siberian Khan Kuchum. |
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| The administrative machinery of Normandy, England, and Maine continued to exist separate from the other lands, with each one retaining its own forms. |
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| In the 7th century, however, learning expanded in Ireland and the Celtic lands, where Latin was a foreign language and Latin texts were eagerly studied and taught. |
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| However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands. |
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| The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey. |
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| As King Edward's heir, he controlled all of the former royal lands. |
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| He also retained control of much of the lands of Harold and his family, which made the king the largest secular landowner in England by a wide margin. |
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| This led to the differentiation between Lower Saxony, lands settled by the Saxon tribe and Upper Saxony, the lands belonging to the House of Wettin. |
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| The treaty offered Rollo and his men the French lands between the river Epte and the Atlantic coast in exchange for their protection against further Viking incursions. |
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| Henry prevented the conflict by refusing to hand over any castles to Matilda as well as confiscating the lands of the nobles he suspected of supporting her. |
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| While Napoleon did renounce state claims to tribal lands, he also began a process of dismantling tribal land ownership in favour of individual land ownership. |
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| In the earlier years of his reign, Henry II claimed further lands and worked on the creation of a ring of vassal states as buffers, especially around England and Normandy. |
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| In 1149, before Henry II became powerful, he made an oath to David that the lands north of Newcastle should belong to the King of Scotland forever. |
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| When Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond died, Henry recognised one successor for Ormond's English, Welsh and Scottish lands, whilst in Ireland another took control. |
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| Following the Roman conquest, Cogidubnus, who was at some point given the Roman names Tiberius Claudius, ruled what had been the lands of the Atrebates. |
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| In return for increased lands in Aquitaine, Edward renounced Normandy, Touraine, Anjou and Maine and consented to reducing King John's ransom by a million crowns. |
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| By the year 47, the Romans held the lands southeast of the Fosse Way. |
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| Elizabeth's father, Sir James Bourchier, was a London leather merchant who owned extensive lands in Essex and had strong connections with Puritan gentry families there. |
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| No coins of Togodumnus are known, but Caratacus's rare coins suggest that he followed his uncle Epaticcus in completing the conquest of the lands of the Atrebates. |
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| He did not explain why the Romans pillaged the kingdom, why they took the lands of the chiefs or why Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped. |
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| The Norman invasion of Ireland provided lands for his youngest son John, but Henry struggled to find ways to satisfy all his sons' desires for land and immediate power. |
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| In January 1193, Richard's brother, John, was summoned to Paris, where he did homage to Philip for all of Richard's lands, and promised to marry Alys with Artois as her dowry. |
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| Forced to find an alternative location after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in 1783, the British government turned to the newly discovered lands of Australia. |
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| Royal power and finances also started to slip, as Henry was persuaded to grant many royal lands and estates to the Lancastrians, thereby losing their revenue. |
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| It is likely that all the fighting men of Sussex were at the battle, as the county's thegns were decimated and any that survived had their lands confiscated. |
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