The Constitutional History of England, in Its Origin and Development, Tom 1

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Clarendon Press, 1874

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Strona 84 - If churls have a common meadow or other partible land' to fence, and some have fenced their part, some have not, and (cattle stray in and) eat up their common corn or grass ; let those go who own the gap and compensate to the others...
Strona 566 - And for holding the general council of the kingdom concerning the assessment of aids, except in the three cases aforesaid, and for the assessing of scutages, we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters.
Strona 566 - Bailiffs, all those who hold of us in chief, at a certain day, that is to say at the distance of forty days [before their meeting], at the least, and to a certain place; and in all the letters of summons, we will express the cause of the summons: and the summons being thus made, the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the counsel of those who shall be present, although all who had been summoned have not come.
Strona 327 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which was right in his own eyes." But it was worse in England in King Stephen's days. For because then the king was powerless, and...
Strona 328 - Many thousands they exhausted with hunger. I cannot and I may not tell of all the wounds, and all the tortures that they inflicted upon the wretched men of this land ; and this state of things lasted the nineteen years that Stephen was king, and ever grew worse and worse. They were continually levying an exaction from the towns, which they called Tenserie...
Strona 175 - Saxons, shewed these to all my ' witan,' and they then said that it seemed good to them all to be holden. Cap. 4. If any one plot against the king's life, of himself, or by harbouring of exiles, or of his men ; let him be liable in his life and in all that he has.
Strona 253 - ... kinsmen and servants, with a special undertaking to be faithful; partly in the surrender by land-owners of their estates to churches or powerful men, to be received back again and held by them as tenants for rent or service.
Strona 252 - ... a complete organization of society through the medium of land tenure, in which from the king down to the lowest landowner...

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