 Homage," says the Treatise of Tenures, " is the most honorable service, and most humble service of reverence, that a frank tenant may do to his lord : for when the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt and his head uncovered, and his...  Shakespeare a Lawyer - Page 24by William Lowes Rushton - 1858 - 50 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthias Earbery - Church and state - 1717 - 140 pages
...his Lord, he (hall be ungirt, and his Head unco ver'd, and his Lord (hall fit, and the Tenant fhall kneel before him on both his Knees, and hold his Hands...jointly together between the Hands of his Lord, and (hall fay, Thus I become your Man, from this Day forward, of Life and Limb, of Earrhly Worfhip, and... | |
 | Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1792 - 568 pages
...homage, he fhall come ungirted, and his head uncovered, while his lord is fitting; and the tenant mall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together, between thofe of his lord, and thus fhall fay—" I become your man, from this day forward, of life, and member,... | |
 | Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1792 - 570 pages
...fhall come ungirted, and hii head uncovered, while his lord is fitting ; and the tenant (hall kneef before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together, between thofe of his lord, and thus fhall fay — " I become your man, from this day forward, of life, and... | |
 | Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Gilbert Stuart - Constitutional history - 1805 - 354 pages
...by Littleton. When the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt, (that is, unarmed) and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and...lord, and shall say, Thus I become your man (from which word homo, homagium, and hominium are derived) from this day far-ward, of life and limb, and... | |
 | Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1816 - 586 pages
...tenant shall do homage, he shall come ungirted, and his head uncovered, while his lord is sitting ; and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his...knees, and hold his hands jointly together, between those of his lord, and thus shall say—" 1 become your man, from this day forward, of life, and member,... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke - Land tenure - 1817 - 950 pages
...and the tenant shal kneele before him on both his knees, and hold his hands joyntly together betweene the hands of his lord, and shall say thus: I become your man (Jeo deveigne vostre home) (i) * The naU below is part of 64. b. in the thirteenth and fourteenth editiont.... | |
 | Arthur Taylor - Coronations - 1820 - 608 pages
...reverence, that a frank tenant may doe to his lord : For when the tenant shall make homage to his lord he shall be ungirt, and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and the tenant shal kneele before him on both iis knees, and hold his hands joyntly together betweene the hands of... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Francis Hargrave - Land tenure - 1823 - 894 pages
...ford shall sit, and the tenant shal kneele before him on both his knees, and hold his hands joyntly together between« the hands of his lord, and shall say thus : I become your man (Jeo deveigne vostre home) ( l ) * The note below it part of 64. b. in the thirteenth andfourteenth... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1824 - 828 pages
...terrene honor," &c. ; which Lord Coke translates, " For when the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt, and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and the tenant shal kneele before him on both his knees, and hold his hands joyntly together betweene the hands of... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Thomas Coventry - Land tenure - 1830 - 716 pages
...afranktenant may do to his lord. For when the tenant performs homage to his lord, he shall be ungirl, and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and...say thus : I become your man from this day forward of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you... | |
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