Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 168
e royal partywas after a brief interval enabled to meet him in the fieldand to crush his divided forces. De Montfort fell, and hisname was branded as a traitors But his great thought hasnever perished, and from his time onwards the towns andcities of England have always shared with an… … of the Crown. Simon de Montfort may justly be regardedas the real founder of the House of Commons. The scene of the fatal battle in which this patriot states-man lost his life was on the abbey lands. Evesham, inthe neighbourhood of his famous castle and broad estates,was well known and loved by…
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