Gilbert, George, Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- ill · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 206
he citys undoing; for a sharpfrost set in and rendered a ready glacial access tothe city. The enemy lost no time in reducing thebarons to submission and the wretched inhabitantsto great misery. The barons, thus reduced to direextremities, invited Louis, the eldest son of theKing of France, to aid… … ELY INTERIOR OF THE NAVE 1 ELY in Norfolk into Lincolnshire, suffered great lossthrough the return of the tide swamping the rearof his army, all his money, and stores. Hehimself escaped to Swineshead Abbey, in theLincolnshire Fens, where a monk is said to haveadministered poison to him. With great…
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