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" I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter. "
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet - Strona lxii
autor: Walter Scott - 1821
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Smail's Guide to Jedburgh and Vicinity and Angler's Guide to the Teviot and ...

Thomas Smail - 1871 - Liczba stron: 96
...England — the recollection of which is still preserved in the following lines : — " I've often heard of Lydford law — • HOW, in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. " THE CASTLE. " Proud Castle I fancy still beholds thee stand, The curb, the guardian, of this Border...
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Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: Midland

John Timbs - 1872 - Liczba stron: 598
...attempts to show that the above summary method of procedure originated from merciful motives : — " I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw. And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such As it deserves no laughter. " They...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Tom 1

1873 - Liczba stron: 838
...nearly a century elapsed ere their i A similar proverb in England of the same interpretation, is Lydford Law, derived from Lydford, a corporation in Devonshire,...Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, .And tit in judgment after." SeeWracoTT's manners were altogether assimilated to those of their countrymen.1...
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The Quarterly Review, Tom 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - Liczba stron: 596
...the ' Jeddart justice' of Scotland, or the 'Lynch law' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — • was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts....
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The Quarterly Review, Tom 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - Liczba stron: 600
...' Jeddart justice ' of Scotland, or the ' Lynch law ' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts....
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Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., Tom 5

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - Liczba stron: 488
...It seems that the same irregular administration of justice was practiced at Lydford, in Devonshire , a burlesque copy of verses on this town begins —...morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." WESTCOTT'S History of Devonshire. My present country residence is in the immediate neighborhood of...
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The Central Law Journal, Tom 93

1921 - Liczba stron: 496
...trial; and the Jed wood justice, "hang in haste and try at leisure." Lydford law is thus aptly defined: "I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." But no matter how it may intertwine and commingle with the records of the mob family, and no matter...
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Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors

Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - Liczba stron: 512
...written by Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs : — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter....
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Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors

Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - Liczba stron: 492
...written by Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs ; — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter....
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The West Country Garland: Selected from the Writings of the Poets of Devon ...

Richard Nicholls Worth - 1875 - Liczba stron: 216
...Prison, and quite deserved the character given to it. The date of this piece is probably 1644. OFT had heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much, And now I find their reason such, That it deserves no laughter. They...
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