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... followed by a massacre . This was notorious conduct in terms of ' honourable warfare ' but the obvious course of a weak administration terrified by the dangerous combination of ' malice domestic and foreign levy ' . Grey's forces were ...
... followed by a massacre . This was notorious conduct in terms of ' honourable warfare ' but the obvious course of a weak administration terrified by the dangerous combination of ' malice domestic and foreign levy ' . Grey's forces were ...
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... followed by a number of the minor clergy . There was no persecution or bloodshed . There had been Catholic martyrs in the past and blood had flowed under Mary Tudor . But Elizabeth , though pressed again and again by Parliament to apply ...
... followed by a number of the minor clergy . There was no persecution or bloodshed . There had been Catholic martyrs in the past and blood had flowed under Mary Tudor . But Elizabeth , though pressed again and again by Parliament to apply ...
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... followed , with little lasting loyalty accruing to the Crown under the non- hereditary law of tanistry . The reform of the savage people to a Tudor system of life entailed- from Henry VIII's time if not under Mary's short reign - a ...
... followed , with little lasting loyalty accruing to the Crown under the non- hereditary law of tanistry . The reform of the savage people to a Tudor system of life entailed- from Henry VIII's time if not under Mary's short reign - a ...
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