Does the passenger travelling along M1 in a shining, brightly liveried motor-coach turn to admire the rake of dull maroon coaches hauled by a drab green diesel locomotive on the adjoining railway line?

When the escuage which was to be paid was uncertain, being more or less according to the pleasure of the king or the assessment of parliament ; then the tenure by escuage was a sort of knight′s service.

[…] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.

On November 15, 1396, […] Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;