Dr. Stubbs
historical figure · 1 work · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Stubbs
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Historian (Bishop William Stubbs) whose analysis of the baronage and characterization of their alliance is cited as authority.
Stubbs, a mere “coalition,” not an “organic union”—a coalition, too, in momentary danger of dissolving into its original factors.
Stubbs, maintaining that the whole baronage of England was implicated in these stirring events, analyses its more conspicuous members into four groups:
Stubbs explains, “an honourable commutation for personal service.