The Five Burgs went too, and the old boundary of Watling Street was once more made the frontier of the Danish possessions.
He appeased the discontent of Northumbria and the Five Burgs by permitting them a certain amount of local independence, with the enjoyment of their own laws and their own lawmen.
Tribute gold of a dozen burgs and all the plunder of the Ebro valley!
His learning, however, spared him the awe which would have been felt by his simpler countrymen or the forest-dwelling Saxons, among whom the mighty stone burgs and aqueducts were commonly regarded as the works of giants.
He will leave men to hold theburgs of our allies in the northeast quarter of the old Goth realm, thus hedging in Septimania from counter-attack.
Well Al one of the burgsalong the line is where Jonah Vark was born when she was alive.
Whatever may be meant by the duty of repairing burgs when it is mentioned in charters coming from a somewhat earlier time, it must for the future be that of upholding those walls and mounds that the king and the lady are rearing.
Year by year Wessex and Mercia had to strain every nerve in order to repel the pagans, to fit out fleets, build burgs and keep armies always in the field.
We must not exclude the hypothesis that some places were fortified and converted into burgs because they were already the focuses of such commerce as there was.
He hears reports of what has been done to make Essex defensible and of two famous burgs built in Mercia; but the military system of Wessex he knows[1685].
Stevenson's valuable aid in the identification of these burgs is gratefully acknowledged.
About the end of the tenth century the duty of maintaining burgsis bound up with the possession of hides[1317].
Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy.
Yes, sir, these other burgs are our true partners in the great game of vital living.
Well, the De Burgs are of Norman descent and Stephen De Burg shows it.
King Clotaire ordered a levy of men, but the beneficiary seigneurs feared that, if they parted with their leudes, their burgs would remain unprotected and either at the mercy of the slaves or exposed to attacks from our band.
Before his departure he made us promise that we would set no more burgs and episcopal villas on fire; pillage, however, continued unabated and was distributed among the poor.
Let the Franks tremble in their burgsat our daring songs!
Look therewithal on those two burgswith broken walls foredone!
Their character was that of free or open towns, and most of the burgs that still bear the name of Villefranche in the South of France were originally bastides.
This place, although fortified in the Middle Ages, played a much less important part in the wars of the Quercy than the neighbouring burgs of Martel and Gourdon.
At last they seemed to be drawing nigh to the head of the dale, and the burgs and the rocks were before them all round it as a wall, though yet about a mile aloof at the further end; and this end it was wider than elsewhere.
When, a fortnight later, the De Burgs arrived with Wulf, while Agnes expressed herself delighted with the quaintness of the old Saxon home, her father and mother were decidedly of Guy's opinion.
Broad casements had replaced the narrow loopholes, and though the flag of the De Burgs still waved over the keep, which stood a little apart from the rest, the family no longer dwelt in it.
A week later Wulf sailed for Rouen with the De Burgs Beorn accompanied him, as well as Osgod, to be present at the wedding, which took place at Rouen Cathedral.
To his offspring he left, e'en as wealthy man doeth, His land and his folk-burgs when he from life wended.
Of all the rube burgs I ever seen, this here's the limit!
This guy's name is familiar in burgs where they don't know if Wilson or Washington is still president of the United States.
The town deserves a prominent place among the many picturesque old burgs stamped with mediaeval character on the banks of the Lot.
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