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... continued when he became king , and under his grandsons Mal- colm the Maiden and William the Lion , his son Alex- ander II . , and his grandson Alexander III . - gradually spread over the whole kingdom . The Court became feudal with the ...
... continued when he became king , and under his grandsons Mal- colm the Maiden and William the Lion , his son Alex- ander II . , and his grandson Alexander III . - gradually spread over the whole kingdom . The Court became feudal with the ...
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... continued to be built during several centuries . These were signs of the continued existence of feudal lords and lairds ; but , except the Bishop's Castle at St Andrews , they were not places of great strength like the Border keeps and ...
... continued to be built during several centuries . These were signs of the continued existence of feudal lords and lairds ; but , except the Bishop's Castle at St Andrews , they were not places of great strength like the Border keeps and ...
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... continued , and James V. completed the conversion of the Earl's Tower at Falk- land into the palace . A new house exorcised old memo- ries , and the scene of Rothesay's murder became a resort of the Court . Here , and at Dunfermline ...
... continued , and James V. completed the conversion of the Earl's Tower at Falk- land into the palace . A new house exorcised old memo- ries , and the scene of Rothesay's murder became a resort of the Court . Here , and at Dunfermline ...
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... continued to be heard in Scotland for more than a century . Are its waves even now still ? Are we yet , after two more centuries have passed , sufficiently distant and calm to give Lyndsay's words a wider reference ? May we say ...
... continued to be heard in Scotland for more than a century . Are its waves even now still ? Are we yet , after two more centuries have passed , sufficiently distant and calm to give Lyndsay's words a wider reference ? May we say ...
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... continued , in the chief citadel of the Roman Catholic Church - the chapel of the castle of the Cardinal - quietly to instruct his pupils in the Gospel of St John , from the place where he had left off at Longniddrie , and also ...
... continued , in the chief citadel of the Roman Catholic Church - the chapel of the castle of the Cardinal - quietly to instruct his pupils in the Gospel of St John , from the place where he had left off at Longniddrie , and also ...
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