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... tenants , or English yeomanry , whose independence has stamped with peculiar features . both our constitution and our national character.'1 Above the thegns in dignity were the ealdormen . In Ealdormen . the primitive patriarchal ...
... tenants , or English yeomanry , whose independence has stamped with peculiar features . both our constitution and our national character.'1 Above the thegns in dignity were the ealdormen . In Ealdormen . the primitive patriarchal ...
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... tenants of the immediate vassals of the Crown never hesitated to follow the lord's standard against the king.2 The general conversion of alodial into feudal tenure was also due , in a great degree , to the voluntary action of the ...
... tenants of the immediate vassals of the Crown never hesitated to follow the lord's standard against the king.2 The general conversion of alodial into feudal tenure was also due , in a great degree , to the voluntary action of the ...
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... tenants as well as tenants - in - chief , should take the oath of fealty to the king . This was formally decreed , 3 at the celebrated Gemôt held on Salisbury Plain , on the Ist of August , 1086 , at which the Witan and all the ...
... tenants as well as tenants - in - chief , should take the oath of fealty to the king . This was formally decreed , 3 at the celebrated Gemôt held on Salisbury Plain , on the Ist of August , 1086 , at which the Witan and all the ...
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... tenants - in - chief , under tenants , freeholders , villeins , and serfs , describes the nature and obligations of the tenures , the value in the time of King Eadward , at the Conquest , and at the date of the survey , and , which ...
... tenants - in - chief , under tenants , freeholders , villeins , and serfs , describes the nature and obligations of the tenures , the value in the time of King Eadward , at the Conquest , and at the date of the survey , and , which ...
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... tenants - in - chief themselves from their under tenants . Of these obligations the most honourable was that of knight - service . This was the tenure by which the king granted out fiefs to his followers , and by which they in turn ...
... tenants - in - chief themselves from their under tenants . Of these obligations the most honourable was that of knight - service . This was the tenure by which the king granted out fiefs to his followers , and by which they in turn ...
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Página 571 - Princess during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them ; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in, and executed by, the said Prince of Orange...
Página 569 - That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 472 - ... or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Página 703 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 568 - And whereas the said late king James the Second having abdicated the government and the throne being thereby vacant, His Highness the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal and divers principal persons of the commons...
Página 569 - ... of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid; do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare: 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the * 1689 (New Style). execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal.
Página 467 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm...
Página 568 - Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
Página 555 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm...
Página 568 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.