Example sentences of "in edward [num] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 2 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 3 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 4 | In Edward IV 's reign John Carent married Isobel , heiress of the Rempstones , to whom the manor had descended . |
| 5 | Londoners were deeply involved in the revival of the Gascon wine trade in Edward IV 's reign , and also in the trade in metals , particularly Cornish tin . |
| 6 | This is not to say that Gloucester was consciously building up his own authority at the expense of the crown — the distinction is meaningless in Edward IV 's lifetime — but by 1483 the duchy connection was Gloucester 's as well as the king 's . |
| 7 | This is not to say that Gloucester was consciously building up his own authority at the expense of the crown — the distinction is meaningless in Edward IV 's lifetime — but by 1483 the duchy connection was Gloucester 's as well as the king 's . |
| 8 | Lancaster and Lincoln served on this basis in Gascony in 1294 and 1298 ; and in Edward II 's reign contract armies became more common as a means of defending the northern border in the absence of the king . |
| 9 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 10 | The oligarchic tendency within the nobility which had shown itself in Edward II 's reign was intensified by the practice of granting new earldoms , and regranting old ones , in tail male . |
| 11 | The agonies of the north , both for the local populace and for the king and realm , were by no means at an end yet , but in Edward II 's reign they reached a scale unapproached before and not exceeded afterwards . |
| 12 | It is difficult to point to any area where the church gained at the expense of the monarchy in Edward II 's reign . |
| 13 | In June 1286 , there were forty Gascons in Edward I 's household , including four knights banneret , three knights bachelor and twenty-one king 's esquires . |
| 14 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 15 | Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government . |