 | John Britton - 1815 - 1086 strani
...commons into race courses, and making presents of horses to those who displayed most skill and merit ; and by training the young men to the use of all kinds...the guise of sham fights and military spectacles. He had nineteen hundred tenants bound by their leases to attend him on horseback at the shortest call... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1815 - 1092 strani
...moos into race courses, and making presents of horses to those who displayed most skill and merit ; and by training the young men to the use of all kinds...the guise of sham fights and military spectacles. He had cineteca hundred tepaiits bound by their leases to attend him on horseback at the shortest call... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1844 - 514 strani
...he added to his possessions a property not much inferior to his own original 21G SIR RHYS AP THOMAS. patrimony. His establishment and hospitality were...present to the hopes of the House of Lancaster. Queen Margaret, whose sagacity and courage had been the guide and stay of her party, was a prisoner in the... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1854 - 468 strani
...Court Henry and his own, by a marriage alliance with Eva, the daughter and heiress of Henry ap Gwylim of that house. By this judicious measure, he added...details. The fatal battle of Tewkesbury was fought on the 3rd of May, 1471, and by its decisive character seemed to put an end for the present to the hopes of... | |
 | 1873 - 590 strani
...unbounded, and his martial instincts endeared him to his tenantry, whom he had trained to the use ot all kinds of arms, under the guise of sham fights and military spectacles. He had two thousand tenants bound by their leases to attend him on horseback on the shortest call ;... | |
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THOMAS. patrimony. His establishment and hospitality were in every respect suitable to his immense wealth, and displayed the magnificence of a prince, rather than that of a private gentleman. He acquired unbounded popularity, and by degrees very formidable... 