Wars of the Roses
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the Wars of the Roses
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English civil war identified as a bloody consequence of the martial habits bred by the Hundred Years' War.
and this hundred years’ war, as historians now call it, left undoubtedly as a legacy, as the result of the fierce military habits which it produced, the bloody struggle known as the Wars of the Roses, in which, to say the truth, the symbols of the two contending royal houses, the White Rose and the Red, were no more to the turbulent and warlike English nobility than the blue and green colours of t …
and, when the Wars of the Roses have closed, a popular movement which has attracted too little attention and which has been much misunderstood shows the English lords of manors rapidly acquiring land, and acquiring it for purposes of sheep-farming and of agriculture on a great scale.
The Genius of the Common Law
Mid-fifteenth-century dynastic civil conflict between York and Lancaster during which lawlessness and jury-packing flourished.
England was delivered over, one might almost say, to the great faction fight called the Wars of the Roses, and to innumerable smaller feuds of private greed and ambition.