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Sentence Examples I love going to court parties, but they are rarely formal, and are only for lesser barons and countesses, not official King's court balls. The Chamberlain brought in revenue, locally supported by the officials of royal burghs, and feudal barons. Once he arrived at Acre, he showed himself to be fair-minded, generous and impartial in his dealings with the barons. The barons mobilized every man they could and put six hundred knights into the field. Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar. The progressive impulse brought down the original robber barons, and reined in corporate greed. It is understood Yardie drug barons have moved into Sheffield for the first time in an attempt to claim new territory. I would myself wonder what we would expect the big drugs barons to do if we legalise cannabis. Eleanor and some of her entourage appeared before the barons dressed as Amazons, declaring their willingness to fight for Christ. Neither in the twelfth century nor in Anglo-Saxon times did society consist only of barons and peasants. The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. The rural population rose in revolt against the barons, who responded by mobilizing their private armies. They are the unelected bankers, media barons and industry chiefs who control the crucial levers of power. Henry III infuriated the barons by favouring foreigners over his own nobility. The castles of the rebellious barons were razed and the nobles never challenged the duke's power again. Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords. In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens. Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads. In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds. Show More Sentences In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it. Today's Kings pay off barons so that the barons will let them retain their thrones. Findlay said the lack of indigenous organised crime in Aberdeen made it an appealing place for drugs barons to target. However, just as the media barons were predominantly male, so were their imagineers. It's known for hot tempers, drug lords and timber barons, none of which you want to mess with. The New York Times reports that the pharmaceutical barons are the most powerful lobby in Washington. But Shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe said legalising cannabis would lead drug barons to push even more hard drugs. Australia's media barons are circling each other like sharks in a very small aquarium. They were primarily to secure the allegiance of their subject, with most barons providing military service. These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed. There are the kings and queens, princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, and barons. Such service has ensured the custom of royal families, business barons and assorted celebrities over decades of dealing with the rich and famous. The cattle barons dominated because without property rights the biggest operations gained all the competitive advantage. Since the stock market started to falter, more and more people have been having a go at becoming property barons. Two booze barons are shipping in illegal hooch to the village in the boots of their cars and selling it to youngsters at knock-down prices. There was talk of drugs barons being involved but the motive of simple, sheer football fanaticism could not be ruled out. Whether it is car czars or bank barons, there's not lot of love for gazillionaire executives these days. Indeed, is there any other way to depict a gang of drug barons armed with automatic weaponry other than as brigands at war with society? Sugar barons appoint their cronies or family members as chairpersons and directors. He was usually named first among the Anglo-French barons, and his friendship with David I was surely close. Show More Sentences For instance the Irish linen industry arose because British textile barons successfully lobbied to kill the Irish cotton industry. The men who got these parcels of land would have been barons, earls and dukes. Its director Olga Heaven says drugs barons have probably simply moved their trade to elsewhere in the Caribbean and West Africa. Liquor barons have always been in support of a ban on toddy and arrack, so that tipplers would turn to Indian made foreign liquor. He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong. Tonight on Four Corners, the winners and losers in a market where water barons, battlers, governments and the river itself wrestle over water. This provoked an outburst of uproarious, thigh-slapping mirth among the beefy barons of Novosti. Knights and barons who had formerly controlled their own armies now took orders from the King. The barons, predictably, overplayed their hand and the king was soon able to ignore many of the Provisions. The war created a new class of super rich drug barons, a mafia that is enmeshed in the country's political system. Small ranchers are being harassed by massively wealthy cattle barons, who desire no impediment to their insatiable desire for money. Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? Some two hundred Norman barons took the land of over four thousand Anglo-Saxon lords, many of whom were exiled or killed. More than 4,000 thegns had lost their lands and been replaced by a group of less than 200 barons. But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility. Drug barons operate out of a dockside warehouse, employing some of their fellow countrymen to do the donkey work. Lords and ladies, dukes and barons, deep in conversation awaited the arrival of King Alexander. The drug fiends, the drug barons, and the gangs that promote them deserve to have the full force of the law directed against them. Mortimer was one of the most powerful marcher barons of Henry III's reign and preoccupied with resisting Welsh advance. In addition, they have been hurt in raids by drug barons and by the actions of some police forces. Show More Sentences Where Mafia and drug barons rule, investigators of any kind become targets. To you I come to make my plaint, good sire In the presence of the barons of your empire. In fact the chief executives of most large media organizations around the world are not moguls but barons. He was cynically lured into helpless addiction by the Perth scone barons in a lock-in at a local tea-room. Great fortunes have usually been built by industrial tycoons, sometimes known as robber barons. The duke gave these back out to those loyal to him, transforming his barons into an aristocracy that was loyal to him. She was also introduced to several lords, dukes and soon to be counts and barons, who were her age. He directed the call to arms not to kings and emperors, but to counts and barons and even to cities. Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons. Barons owned land, while dukes and duchesses supervised the barons. From that day on and for the next ten years Rickwood and the barons became the core of my life. In 1133 he was sent by the King to Bayeux, after the death of Bishop Richard, to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights and vavasours. Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice. More than 100 years ago, unionized newsboys in New York City waged a successful strike against newspaper barons Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne. In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope. He was more ambitious and energetic than was his father, and he was the first king of the Capetian line to have success in compelling obedience from his barons. Firstly it would free us from the oil barons who are holding us to ransom. Similarly, the authority of marquesses, dukes, earls, barons, counts, and other nobles had long existed side by side with royal and imperial authority. Show More Sentences What would you expect from a man whose ancestors were barons and dukes? From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom. Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses. All the British press barons have big investments in the United States. This was an era of robber barons and child labor, hobos riding the rods. Yet again, you have to wonder about the company Tony keeps and his apparent fondness for sucking up to media barons and other people of wealth or influence. By 1120, however, the barons had submitted, Henry's son had married into the Angevin house and Louis VI had agreed terms for peace after defeat in battle. The reality is that if you monopolists would stop thinking like the robber barons of old and start thinking like the entrepreneurs of today, you would encounter another path. Here he celebrates the heyday of Birmingham's minor league team, the barons. Henry ruled through the various barons and lords in England and Normandy, whom he manipulated skilfully for political effect. Amaury III of Montfort and many other barons rose up against Henry, and there was an assassination plot from within his own household. Henry responded by mounting campaigns against the rebel barons and deepening his alliance with Theobald. Amaury was joined by several other Norman barons, headed by Waleran de Beaumont, one of the sons of Henry's old ally, Robert of Meulan. Raleigh defended the refusal of the barons to change the law of bastardy and legitimation. Also his curia, namely, the earls and barons, because if he is without a bridle, that is without law, they ought to put the bridle on him. The castle is best known for being the home of the Parr family, who represent one of the lines of heirs of these barons. During King John's struggle with the barons, Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 at Runnymede near Egham. John's efforts to reverse this concession reignited the war, and in 1216 the barons invited Prince Louis of France to take the throne. Examples were made of major landowners such as Earl Edwin of Mercia, their properties confiscated and redistributed amongst Norman barons. One of Hugh d'Avranche's barons has been identified as Robert Nicholls, Baron of Halton and Montebourg. Show More Sentences In 1266, it was the site of the Battle of Chesterfield, in which a band of rebel barons were defeated by a royalist army. The Yardies work independently, but also deal with some Scots drug barons and their networks of pushers. Used to make methamphetamines, drug barons crave common pharmaceuticals to keep their operations moving. The power of the feudal barons to control their landholding was considerably weakened in 1290 by the statute of Quia Emptores. Most of the 1215 charter and later versions sought to govern the feudal rights of the Crown over the barons. William and his barons also exercised tighter control over inheritance of property by widows and daughters, often forcing marriages to Normans. The barons, under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, captured most of southeast England in the Second Barons' War. The resulting parliament included barons, clergy, knights, and burgesses for the first time. The royal court was gathered in April 1155, where the barons swore fealty to the King and his sons. In 1164 Henry intervened to seize lands along the border of Brittany and Normandy, and in 1166 invaded Brittany to punish the local barons. Henry was then free to move against the rebel barons in Brittany, where feelings about his seizure of the duchy were still running high. In 1173 Henry faced the Great Revolt, an uprising by his eldest sons and rebellious barons, supported by France, Scotland and Flanders. The rebel barons were kept imprisoned for a short time and in some cases fined, then restored to their lands. Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons. Richard went to Poitou and raised the barons who were loyal to himself and his mother in rebellion against his father. In January 1175 Richard was dispatched to Aquitaine to punish the barons who had fought for him. Richard the Lionheart's victory at Taillebourg deterred many barons from thinking of rebelling and forced them to declare their loyalty to him. After Richard had subdued his rebellious barons he again challenged his father. Letters backing John arrived from the Pope in April, but by then the rebel barons had organised into a military faction. John and the rebel barons did not trust each other, and neither side seriously attempted to implement the peace accord. Show More Sentences As part of the June peace deal, the barons were supposed to surrender London by 15 August, but this they refused to do. The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress. In exchange for agreeing to support Henry, the barons demanded that the King reissue Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. The barons anticipated that the King would act in accordance with these charters, subject to the law and moderated by the advice of the nobility. The inconsistency with which he applied the charters over the course of his rule alienated many barons, even those within his own faction. There were no signatures on the charter of 1215, and the barons present did not attach their own seals to it. The vassals were subject to their lords, who in turn were subject to barons or kings. A typical Great Council would consist of archbishops, bishops, abbots, barons and earls, the pillars of the feudal system. The archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls and barons were summoned, as were two knights from each shire and two burgesses from each borough. John's reign was marked by conflict with the barons, particularly over the limits of royal power. Later in Henry's reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. John summoned his earls, barons, and military advisers to the town to plan an invasion of Normandy. Even the local barons started to melt away, and soon Adrian's Byzantine allies were left hopelessly outnumbered. John succeeded Richard as king in 1199, but his rule proved unpopular with many of his barons, who in response moved against him. John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to Prince Louis, the eldest son of the French king. Henry was disconnected from his barons, and a mutual lack of understanding led to unrest and resentment towards his rule. In 1258, the discontented barons, led by Simon de Montfort, forced the King to agree to reforms including the holding of regular parliaments. While negotiations continued with the barons, the King ensconced himself in the castle, although no army moved to take it. Wace says Arthur created the Round Table to prevent quarrels among his barons, none of whom would accept a lower place than the others. Formerly, the barons were the members of the House of Commons representing the Cinque Ports of Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich. Show More Sentences At later coronations, barons were specially designated from among the city councillors for the specific purpose of attending coronations. Originally, the barons were charged with bearing a ceremonial canopy over the sovereign during the procession to and from Westminster Abbey. At coronations since Victoria's, the barons have attended the ceremony, but they have not carried canopies. In 1379 the earldom passed to the Sinclair family, who were also barons of Roslin near Edinburgh. Moreover, feudalism was dying, and the feudal armies controlled by the barons became obsolete. Bishops were required to do homage to the king for their lands, just like earls and barons, who were vassals of the crown. Henry was unwilling or unable to enforce the terms of the treaty on his barons in Ireland, who continued to gain territory in Ireland. While his son brought all the senior barons of Northumberland into his entourage, David rebuilt the fortress of Carlisle. The majority of Norman barons eventually adopted Irish culture and language, married in with the native Irish, and adopted Irish legal custom. After William of Normandy secured England, he left the Welsh to his Norman barons to carve out lordships for themselves. Henry promised to abide by the Great Charter of 1225, which limited royal power and protected the rights of the major barons. In 1263 one of the more radical barons, Simon de Montfort, seized power, resulting in the Second Barons' War. In 1215, John and the rebel barons negotiated a potential peace treaty, the Magna Carta. The second was Ranulf de Blondeville, the Earl of Chester and one of the most powerful loyalist barons. In exchange for agreeing to support Henry, the barons demanded that the King reissue the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. Henry tried to use his royal authority leniently, hoping to appease the more hostile barons and maintain peace in England. The 1240s saw major upheavals in land ownership due to deaths among the barons, enabling Henry to redistribute Irish lands to his supporters. These lands were in many cases unprofitable for the barons to hold and English power reached its zenith under Henry for the medieval period. The disagreements between the leading barons involved in the revolt soon became evident. He attempted to settle the crisis permanently by forcing the barons to agree to the Treaty of Kingston. Show More Sentences The King's success in dividing the barons and in fostering a reaction, however, rendered such projects hopeless. His son Edward, however, began using patronage and bribes to win over many of the barons. The newly empowered barons banished Gaveston, to which Edward responded by revoking the reforms and recalling his favourite. Gaveston's return from exile in 1307 was initially accepted by the barons, but opposition quickly grew. Temporarily, at least, Edward and the barons appeared to have come to a successful compromise. Following his return, Gaveston's relationship with the major barons became increasingly difficult. On 12 January the leading barons and clergy agreed that Edward II should be removed and replaced by his son. Shortly after this, a representative delegation of barons, clergy and knights was sent to Kenilworth to speak to the King. After regaining power, Richard did not punish Henry, although he did execute or exile many of the other rebellious barons. This agreement lasted until March 25, 848, when the Aquitainian barons recognised Charles as their king. He endowed Hagano with monasteries that were already the benefices of other barons, alienating them. The barons besieged Northampton Castle in protest at King John's oppression of his subjects. On 20 July 911, at the Battle of Chartres, they defeated Rollo despite the absence of many French barons and of Charles the Simple. Although both John and the barons agreed to the Magna Carta peace treaty in 1215, neither side complied with its conditions. Civil war broke out shortly afterwards, with the barons aided by Louis of France. John was deeply suspicious of the barons, particularly those with sufficient power and wealth to potentially challenge the king. John's suspicions and jealousies meant that he rarely enjoyed good relationships with even the leading loyalist barons. Tensions between John and the barons had been growing for several years, as demonstrated by the 1212 plot against the king. Within a few months of John's return, rebel barons in the north and east of England were organising resistance to his rule. Letters of support from the pope arrived in April but by then the rebel barons had organised. Show More Sentences Neither John nor the rebel barons seriously attempted to implement the peace accord. Louis and the rebel barons advanced west and John retreated, spending the summer reorganising his defences across the rest of the kingdom. Not having heard anything directly from their sovereign, FitzRalph and the Norman barons rejected Philip's claim to Vexin. He summoned an assembly of French barons at Soissons, which was well attended with the exception of Ferdinand, Count of Flanders. The barons fully supported his plan, and they all gathered their forces and prepared to join with Philip at the agreed rendezvous. Considered by contemporaries to be a harsh but effective ruler, Henry skilfully manipulated the barons in England and Normandy. Robert issued an appeal for help to his barons, and Henry was the first to arrive in Rouen in November. Tempers flared, but Henry, supported by Henry de Beaumont and Robert of Meulan, held sway and persuaded the barons to follow him. Despite English levies and knights owing military service to the Church arriving in considerable numbers, many of his barons did not appear. Despite the treaty, Henry set about inflicting severe penalties on the barons who had stood against him during the invasion. Reaching Rouen, Henry reaffirmed the laws and customs of Normandy and took homage from the leading barons and citizens. A MOCK trial of barons and bishops will be held in the Palace of Westminster to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. We will not allow these drug barons to negatively influence and spoil our future generations, COAS reiterated. Most of those murdered were narcocorridos, who sing songs celebrating the lives of drug barons. Law chiefs want to target the drug barons instead of the couriers who risk their lives often without realising the danger they put themselves in. Land grabbers and drug barons wanted to disrupt the peace of Karachi by fuelling sectarianism and undermining political harmony, he added. The drugs were recovered in a neighbourhood operation that targeted the homes of suspected drug barons across Tyneside. A HENCHMAN of one of Scotland's top drug barons yesterday agreed to hand over pounds 50,000 of his ill-gotten gains. The robber barons of the Middle Ages were perfectly sure that civilization would go to the bow-wows if they were interfered with. This was particularly important for John, as a way of pressuring the barons but also as a way of controlling Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Show More Sentences Numerous barons were subjected to John's malevolentia, even including William Marshal, a famous knight and baron normally held up as a model of utter loyalty. John found that these measures enabled him to raise further resources through the confiscation of the lands of barons who could not pay or refused to pay. John's reforms were less popular with the barons themselves, especially as they remained subject to arbitrary and frequently vindictive royal justice. Despite his claim to unique authority within England, John would sometimes justify his actions on the basis that he had taken council with the barons. In 1315, faced with the constant encroachments of royal power on the liberties of Normandy, the barons and towns pressed the Norman Charter on the king. There were conflicts between the barons and the families descended from the Welsh princes, and control of the land passed to and fro in the Welsh Marches. Edward called for a fresh military campaign for Scotland, but this idea was quietly abandoned, and instead the King and the barons met in August 1308 to discuss reform. A fresh parliament was held in April, where the barons once again criticised Gaveston, demanding his exile, this time supported by Isabella and the French monarchy. Violence seemed likely, but the situation was resolved through the mediation of the moderate Henry de Lacy, the Earl of Lincoln, who convinced the barons to back down. Edward was eager to discuss the potential for governmental reform, but the barons were unwilling to begin any such debate until the problem of Gaveston had been resolved. Led by Edward's cousin, the Earl of Lancaster, a group of the barons seized and executed Gaveston in 1312, beginning several years of armed confrontation. Gaveston's arrogance and power as Edward's favourite provoked discontent both among the barons and the French royal family, and Edward was forced to exile him. Louis had strong views of his own on the rights of kings over those of barons, but was also influenced by his wife, Margaret, who was Eleanor's sister, and by the Pope. Starring Roger Moore as 007, the film tells of a Harlem drug lord known as Mr Big who plans to distribute free heroin to put rival drug barons out of business. Henry softened some of his policies in response to the concerns of the barons, but he soon began to target his political enemies and recommence his unpopular Sicilian policy. Over the next four years, neither Henry nor the barons were able to restore stability in England, and power swung back and forth between the different factions. The Lusignans began to break the law with impunity, pursuing personal grievances against other barons and the Savoyards, and Henry took little or no action to restrain them. In 1247 Henry encouraged his relatives to travel to England, where they were rewarded with large estates, largely at the expense of the English barons. Unlike his father, Henry did not exploit the large debts that the barons frequently owed to the Crown, and was slow to collect any sums of money due to him. The three brothers made an oath at the French court that they would not make terms with Henry II without the consent of Louis VII and the French barons. Show More Sentences In the post-Soviet time, the economy fell into the hands of robber barons, and patronisation by politicians and government officials in an essentially collusive framework. The barons anticipated that the King would act in accordance with these definitive charters, subject to the law and moderated by the advice of the nobility. In Normandy some of the border barons rose up and, although the majority of the duchy remained openly loyal, there appears to have been a wider undercurrent of discontent. Meanwhile, local barons unhappy with Henry's rule saw opportunities to recover traditional powers and influence by allying themselves with his sons. A committee of MPs want to set up a Royal Commission to draw up changes to the drugs laws as MPs have concluded that prison sentences are failing to deter drug barons. On landing in England on 8 December 1154, Henry quickly took oaths of loyalty from some of the barons and was then crowned alongside Eleanor at Westminster on 19 December. By this point in the war, the barons on both sides were eager to avoid an open battle, so members of the clergy brokered a truce, to the annoyance of both Henry and Stephen. The local barons abandoned Isaac, who considered making peace with Richard, joining him on the crusade, and offering his daughter in marriage to the person named by Richard. Malcolm arrived there on 24 August 1093 to find that William Rufus refused to negotiate, insisting that the dispute be judged by the English barons. In part, this was because William was unable to offer significant patronage, despite the expectations from the loyalist barons that they would be rewarded. They were preserved by the college's Principal during the Reformation, who fought off local barons who had attacked the nearby St Machar's Cathedral. In response, Edward II planned a major military campaign with the support of Lancaster and the barons, mustering a large army between 15,000 and 20,000 strong. During the war, the Tower's garrison joined forces with the barons. Following Henry's death in 1135, one of William I's grandsons, Stephen, laid claim to the throne and took power with the support of most of the barons. In 1258, seven leading barons forced Henry to swear to uphold the Provisions of Oxford, superseded, the following year, by the Provisions of Westminster. The most prominent instances of this prior to the reign of Henry III are the disagreements between Thomas Becket and Henry II and between King John and the barons. Empress Matilda was declared heir presumptive by her father, Henry I, after the death of her brother on the White Ship, and acknowledged as such by the barons. The military power of individual barons declined, and the Tudor court became a place where baronial squabbles were decided with the influence of the monarch. The assemblies of the French barons and prelates and the University of Paris decided that males who derive their right to inheritance through their mother should be excluded. Louis came down firmly in favour of Henry, but the French arbitration failed to achieve peace as the rebellious barons refused to accept the verdict. Show More Sentences The reformist barons argued their case based on Magna Carta, suggesting that it was inviolable under English law and that the King had broken its terms. The rebel barons concluded that peace with John was impossible, and turned to Philip II's son, the future Louis VIII, for help, offering him the English throne. The 25 barons selected for the new council were all rebels, chosen by the more extremist barons, and many among the rebels found excuses to keep their forces mobilised. The barons were trying to force John to keep to the charter, but clause 61 was so heavily weighted against the King that this version of the charter could not survive. John was already personally unpopular with many of the barons, many of whom owed money to the Crown, and little trust existed between the two sides. After the Battle of Lewes, Edward was hostage to the rebellious barons, but escaped after a few months and joined the fight against Simon de Montfort. Richard's barons joined in the fray and turned against their duke. Given that by this time it was common for castles to be built in stone, and that many barons had expanded or refortified their castles, this was not an easy task. I used to sit in my jimjams watching Hannibal, BA et al shoot Colombian drug barons with cabbages out of a tube of a Saturday teatime as a nipper. It cannot be determined whether he disgraced the King or the barons in this affair, but it is speculated that some kind of political intrigue was involved. Many of these barons had taken an oath to stay in Normandy until the late king was properly buried, which prevented them from returning to England. A fresh rebellion broke out amongst the barons in southern Normandy, led by William, the Count of Ponthieu, whereupon Geoffrey and Matilda intervened in support of the rebels. Henry also had a reputation for punishing those barons who stood against him, and he maintained an effective network of informers and spies who reported to him on events. William of Breteuil championed the rights of Robert, who was still abroad, returning from the Crusade, and to whom Henry and the barons had given homage in previous years. The English barons were initially unenthusiastic about the expedition, which delayed his departure, so it was not until February 1214 that he disembarked at La Rochelle. John instructed Langton to organise peace talks with the rebel barons. Examples from Classical Literature These haughty barons who overstride the world, what are they in the day of adversity? Men they were who inherited the blood of the saintly Langton and of his lordly barons. The other half went to princes, barons, and other possessors of lands, etc. The King held a high Court, and bade his great vassals and barons, and all the lords of his venery to the feast. Earls and barons shall be amerced only by their peers, and only in accordance with the seriousness of the offense. This produced, of course, a very marked difference between the greater and the lesser or unparliamentary barons. Their tops, now inaccessible, are to be the future eyries of self-crowned railroad nobs and rude bonanza barons. Doubtless Clifford was as red-handed a sinner as any of the barons, but probably no worse. The Viceroy of Apulia and the Apulian barons followed closely in their wake. Langton guided the barons in their demands on the king which were expressed in Magna Carta. The barons gained some tidings of his proceedings, and were on their guard. So they sent him into the scullery, and when they called all the other servants barons and lords, they only called him cookey. Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court. The memorandum testifies to the strength of Bruce's hold on the country, and to the recalcitrance of Edward's barons. His deemsters and barons are about him, and his people are on the sward below. Olivier and alienor are served by two barons as squires of state. He divides the realm among his barons, to rule over and defend. Times of action make princes into peasants, and boors into barons. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons of the cinque Ports. Thus much for the barons of London, their common seal at that time. Show More Sentences My chief war is against the clergy and barons of the land who bear down upon the poor. Such barons have states and their own subjects, who recognize them as lords and hold them in natural affection. The charitable sector is littered with robber barons attempting to cleanse themselves of the stench of their real jobs. Why did all the great robber barons of the 19th century come of age within a decade of one another? Perhaps he sat quietly writing it in his cell when the angry barons were forcing King John to sign the Magna Charta. Such was MAGNA CHARTA, obtained by the barons, sword in hand, from King John. There will be more to say about these marcher barons later on. Its grant to Edward made him the natural head of the marcher barons. Possibly the barons would depose Henry, and place a new king upon England's throne, and then De Vac would mock the Plantagenet to his face. The Lord Treasurer, the Lord High Steward, too were there and twenty-five peers, nine earls, and sixteen barons to try the case. The reference begins with chronological entries on specific eras, such as the railroad robber barons and the muckrakers who delved into the misdeeds of the early financiers. There are rogues and knaves here, friars and priests, barons and burgesses, bakers and butchers, tailors and tanners, masons and miners, and folk of many other crafts. Both manors date from the early 12th Century, with Alston Moor having belonged to successive kings of Scotland and Kirkhaugh to the Anglo-Norman Veteripont barons. The consequences of this situation were a continual opposition to authority of the sovereign, and frequent wars between the great barons or chief feudatories themselves. Who are the unknown robber barons hiding behind PFI contracts? Behind the knights came the barons and the nobles of the mid-country, in robes of silk and cloth of gold, with golden chains about their necks and jewels at their girdles. Find more words! 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