Memoirs Chiefly Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Northumberland, Volume 2Bell and Daldy, 1858 - Northumberland (England) |
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... king who had any possessions south of the Tweed ; and these he possessed before he gained the crown , in consequence of his marriage with the widow of Simon de St. Liz , who was the daughter of Waltheof , the last Anglo - Saxon Earl of ...
... king who had any possessions south of the Tweed ; and these he possessed before he gained the crown , in consequence of his marriage with the widow of Simon de St. Liz , who was the daughter of Waltheof , the last Anglo - Saxon Earl of ...
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... king's court , it shall be struck through the middle of his hand ; and if he draw blood , the hand shall be cut off . The seventh law of King Alfred's code placed the life of such an offender at the royal mercy ; this was confirmed by ...
... king's court , it shall be struck through the middle of his hand ; and if he draw blood , the hand shall be cut off . The seventh law of King Alfred's code placed the life of such an offender at the royal mercy ; this was confirmed by ...
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... King David . The English charters are in fact more jurisdictional and political in all their bearings , but less ... king's reign , they would evince a remarkable amount of social legislation for the period . This will appear the ...
... King David . The English charters are in fact more jurisdictional and political in all their bearings , but less ... king's reign , they would evince a remarkable amount of social legislation for the period . This will appear the ...
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... king's township , he was to make recompense with fifty shillings ; but if it was done in an earl's , the fine was ... king twenty - nine cows and a heifer ; § if any one killed another's dog , he should watch upon the owner's dunghill ...
... king's township , he was to make recompense with fifty shillings ; but if it was done in an earl's , the fine was ... king twenty - nine cows and a heifer ; § if any one killed another's dog , he should watch upon the owner's dunghill ...
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... king of Scotts . First , they dwelling in Cannobie pay a mark a year to the castle of Carlisle ; which is so openly known , that the Scotts doth not deny the payment is usual and allotted to the king's castle , which proveth plainly the ...
... king of Scotts . First , they dwelling in Cannobie pay a mark a year to the castle of Carlisle ; which is so openly known , that the Scotts doth not deny the payment is usual and allotted to the king's castle , which proveth plainly the ...
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Page 161 - Ceteris servis non .in nostrum morem, discriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur: suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. frumenti modum dominus aut pecoris aut vestis ut colono iniungit, et servus hactenus paret : cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page 161 - Ceteris servis, non in nostrum morem descriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur. Suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris aut vestis, ut colono, injungit : et servus hactenus paret ; cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page lxxxiii - Engolismensis diocesis salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum a nobis petitur, quod iustum est et honestum tam vigor equitatis quam ordo exigit rationis, ut id per sollicitudinem officii nostri ad debitum perducatur effectum.
Page lxxxi - In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xiii die Decembris, anno regni nostri quarto.
Page 135 - This year went Siward the earl [of Northumbria] with a great army into Scotland, both with a ship force and with a land force, and fought against the Scots, and put to flight King Macbeth, and slew all who were the chief men in the land, and led thence much booty, such as no man before had obtained. But his son Osbarn, and his sister's son Siward, and some of his house-carles, and also of the king's, were there slain, on the day of the Seven Sleepers," (July 27.) Bishop Aldred, of Worcester, is sent...
Page 134 - ... with the other nobles. The king gave him besides many mansions on the road, that he and his successors might find entertainment in going and re* De Gestis Regum. turning ; and these houses continued to belong to the kings of Scotland until the time of Henry II.
Page 220 - ... of the fourteenth century may be divided more or less definitely into 41 groups separated by average intervals of 13^ years. In Kyoto a complete record has been kept for a thousand years. Here there was a strong maximum of destructive and strong earthquakes...
Page 296 - The earl concluded by entreating the king to order his council and treasurer to pay him and his son a large sum, conformably to the grant made in the last parliament, so that no injury might arise to the realm by repudiating what was due to them. It is clear that these just demands of the Percies received no consideration ; and it is not to be wondered at that, thus slighted, defrauded of their due, harassed by debts incurred for the king, and with their honour engaged for their fulfilment, goaded...
Page 156 - Counties palatine are so called a palatio; because the owners thereof (the earl of Chester, the bishop of Durham, and the duke of Lancaster,) had in those counties jura regalia, as fully as the king hath in his palace ; regalem potestatem in omnibus, as Bracton expresses it u.
Page lxxxiv - Benedicti, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Cum a nobis petitur quod justum est et honestum, tam vigor equitatis quam ordo exigit rationis ut id per sollicitudinem officii nostri ad debitum perducatur effectum...