The Early Plantagenets

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Longmans, Green, 1876 - 286 páginas
 

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Página 214 - No scutage or aid shall be imposed in our kingdom, unless by the general council of our kingdom...
Página 279 - EPOCHS OF MODERN HISTORY. A SERIES OF BOOKS NARRATING THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND EUROPE AT SUCCESSIVE EPOCHS SUBSEQUENT TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA. Edited by EDWARD E. MORRIS.
Página 260 - ... concerning the royal power of the king or his heirs or against the estate of the crown, should be void and of no avail or force whatsoever ; but the matters to be established for the estate of the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, should be treated, accorded, and established in parliament, by the king, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm, according as had been before accustomed.
Página 146 - ... or damaged in person or estate, but by the judgment of his peers and by the law of the land. Others fixed the rate of payments due by the vassal to his lord. Others presented rules for national taxation and for the organization of a national council, without the consent of which the king could not tax. Others decreed the banishment of the alien servants of John. Although it is not the foundation of English liberty, it is the first, the clearest, the most united, and historically the most important...
Página 260 - York in 1322, the king obtained the revocation of the ordinances, and a declaration that 'matters to be established for the estate of our lord the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments by our lord the king, and by the consent of the prelates, earls and barons, and commonalty of the realm, according as hath been hitherto accustomed.
Página 184 - But, strange to say, there is no proposal to restore the missing articles of the Charter of Runnymede, by which taxation without the consent of the national council is forbidden. These grievances were to be redressed before the end of the year ; and the aliens were to be removed at once from all places of trust. But this was not the most critical part of the business. The Provisions of Oxford, as they were called, were intended to be much more than an enforcement of Magna Carta ; a body of provisions...
Página 279 - The THIRTY YEARS' WAR, 1618-1648. By SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, late Student of Ch. Ch. Author of . History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke* &c.
Página 280 - The BEGINNING of the MIDDLE AGES; CHARLES the GREAT and ALFRED; the HISTORY of ENGLAND in its connection with that of EUROPE in the NINTH CENTURY. By the Very Rev. RW CHURCH, MA The AGE of ANNE.
Página 188 - All this was in the king's favour. The arbitrator, however, added that all the charters issued before the time of the Provisions should hold good, and that all parties should condone enmities and injuries arising from the late troubles. Lewis mentions as his chief motive for thus giving the verdict practically in the king's favour the fact that the Provisions had already been annulled by Molives for the Pope, and the parties bound by them the decision released from their oaths.
Página 280 - The AGE of ANNE. By EDWARD E. MORRIS, MA, Editor of the Series. The NORMANS IN EUROPE. By the Rev. AH JoHNSON.MA EDWARD III. By the Rev. W. WARBURTON, MA FREDERICK the GREAT and the SEVEN YEARS

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