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The most famous and popular of all English saints, St. Thomas of Canterbury, could not be ignored but Edward does not seem to have shown any great affection for him and one cannot help feeling that he was too conscious of the parallel between Becket and his own troublesome archbishops to display any great devotion towards the martyr.

— Louis Francis Salzman Edward I (1968)

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Eleanor of Castile is the most attractive personality in the long list of English queens, her only rival being Philippa of Hainault.

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In the first place it must be borne in mind that before the extinction of its independence Wales was a geographical expression rather than a nation.

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Law, considered historically, may be divided into two branches, Theory or Legislation, and Practice or Administration.

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The theoretical supremacy of the king in legal matters was so far practical that his prolonged absence, in Gascony, Wales or Scotland, usually coincided with the periods of greatest lawlessness.

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