Duchy

So he hoisted his sail and again crossed the Channel to Normandy, from whence after three days he returned by land to Brittany.

His principal adherents in England, seeing how matters stood, contrived to escape by sea, and join him in the Duchy, among whom were the Marcus of Dorset, Sir Edward Woodville, Lord Wells, the two Courtenays above mentioned, Sir Giles Daubeny, Sir John Bouchier, Sir Robert Willoughby, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir John Chaney, and his two brothers, Sir William Berkeley and Thomas, his brother.

sir richard edcombe and some others of less note at that time among whom was one edward poynings later knighted for his services in war of which and some other doings of his we shall have occasion to speak farther on chapter one

but he made pretty persistent efforts to induce the duke of brittany CHAPTER II ATTAINMENT OF THE CROWN So ended the first great movement in England in Henry's favour, and the first attempt at Henry himself to make good his claim to the throne.

Erswick found the Earl at Vannes and was immediately dispatched by him to the court of Charles VIII to procure a passport into France, which he soon obtained and brought to the Earl in Brittany.

Henry then made secret inquiry to all the byways leading from Brittany into France, requested his companions to go with his uncle, the Earl of Pembroke, as if to pay a visit to the Duke, who was at that time, for a change of air, residing in the confines of his duchy.

He privately instructed his uncle, however, as soon as they came near the borders, to conduct them by the shortest road into France, and he himself left Vannes two days after their departure to rejoin them in the Duchy of Anjou.

No man imagined that he had left the place for good, as there still remained about three hundred Englishmen in Vannes who knew nothing of his purpose, but after he had gone about five miles he turned into a wood, where he changed clothes with an attendant, and pursued the remainder of his journey as a page to his own servant, who led the way for him in a small company till, by a zigzag route adopted to defeat pursuit, they at length reached Angers.

In the 8th century arose the temporal power of the popes, a power destined to be the cause of endless disputes and troubles in the future, as well as the chief factor in the diminution of the spiritual influence of the papacy.

It was Pippin the Frank who first, in 755, confirmed the Pope in the possession of the many estates known as the Duchy of Rome.

The coronation of Pippin and his sons in 756 led the Popes afterwards to claim the right of crowning temporal sovereigns.

By the end of the 8th century, the authority of the Eastern emperors over Western Europe had become merely nominal, and the iconoclastic controversy had led also to the separation of the Eastern and Western churches.

The nobility, who formed a distinct and privileged caste, were exempt from taxation, and the weight of paying for the ambitious and costly foreign wars upon which their kings embarked fell upon the already overburdened peasants and the people of the towns.

The Estates General, or representative assembly of France, had failed to acquire control over either taxation or legislation, and the monarchs ruled as they willed.

The circumstances in which Louis XI obtained the Duchy of Burgundy must be more fully explained.

The Dukes of Burgundy were Valois of the royal family of France, the Duchy having been given in 1360 by King John to his fourth son Philip, who had fought with him at Poitiers and afterwards shared his captivity.

What state? barked the Lord of Aquila contemptuously.

The Duchy of Babiano, came the answer.

You would be false to the Duke that you may be faithful to the Duchy, he questioned, scorn running ever stronger in his voice.

Sirs, it is a riddle I'll not pretend to solve.

There fell a pause in which they eyed one another, and their glances were almost as the glances of baffled men.

I am keen of vision, Franceschino, keen of vision." He tapped his nose and chuckled in malicious appreciation of his own acute perceptions.

Francesco regarded him with an eye of stony scorn.

He might have answered, had he been so disposed, that the Duchy of Babiano was his to take whenever he pleased.

He eyed the earldom of Kent, belonging to his uncle Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

Odo had been one of William the Conqueror's most powerful allies, and his lands were among the richest in the Duchy.

Henry I simply refused to let a cousin claim them.

The dispute began quietly, but soon escalated as William grew more resentful.

Chapter one, which treats of the appearance of the country and serves as introduction.

The sea covers today what was once the Duchy of Clarides.

No trace of the town or the castle remains, but when it is calm there can be seen, it is said, within the circumference of a mile, huge trunks of trees standing on the bottom of the sea.

A spot on the banks, which now serves as a station for the custom house officers, is still called the Tailor's Booth, and it is quite probable that this name is in memory of a certain Master Jean who is mentioned in this story.

At first she did not listen to them, but as they again began to repeat their title-tattle, she ended by believing them, and decided to send Francor away.

However, to give him an honorable exile, she sent him to Rome to obtain the blessing of the Pope.

This journey was all the longer for Francor the squire, because a great many taverns much frequented by musicians separated the Duchy of Clerides from the Holy Apostolic Seat.

In the course of this story we shall see how soon the Duchess regretted having deprived the two children of their most faithful guardian." End of section one.

Of course, some of these ancient titles, the Lord President of the Privy Council is usually used for the leader of the House of Commons nowadays.

There's the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

That is Louise Haig now.

That's become like the cabinet office fixer, the government fixer who looks at everything, but

not always.

As opposed to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Louise Haig will have nothing to do.

I mean, the Duchy of Lancaster does its own work in terms of...

She has some work to do.