Essays Introductory to the Study of English Constitutional HistoryHenry Offley Wakeman, Arthur Hassall Longmans, Green & Company, 1901 - 349 pàgines |
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Essays Introductory to the Study of English Constitutional History: By ... Henry Offley Wakeman,Arthur Hassall Visualització completa - 1887 |
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Essays Introductory to the Study of English Constitutional History Henry Offley Wakeman,Arthur Hassall Visualització completa - 1901 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 178 - Moreover we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Pàgina 190 - ... shall be treated, accorded, and established in parliaments by the king and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons and the commonalty of the realm, is but an amplification of the principle laid down by his father in 1295.
Pàgina 81 - ... of nature. The history of the pursuit of gain is far from being the simple history of industry, with growing national prosperity ; it is the history also of depredation, tyranny, and rapine. One passage in it is thus given, in the early annals of our own country : " Every rich man built his castle, and they filled the land with castles. They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at their castles, and when they were finished they filled them with evil men. Then they took those...
Pàgina 13 - ... if any one plot against the king's life, of himself or by harbouring of exiles, or of his men, let him be liable in his life and in all that he has.
Pàgina 78 - Salisbury, and there came to him his witan, and all the landowning men of property there were over all England, whose soever men they were, and all bowed down to him and became his men, and swore oaths of fealty to him that they would be faithful to him against all other men.
Pàgina 161 - ... in generali, per vice•comites et ballivos nostros, omnes illos qui de nobis tenent in capite; ad certum diem, scilicet ad terminum quadraginta dierum ad minus, et ad certum locum; et in omnibus litteris illius...
Pàgina 15 - He then asked them, who would apply to its amendment, and be in that fellowship that he was, and love that which he loved, and shun that which he shunned, both on sea and land? That is, then, that no man deny justice to another : if any one do so, let him make 'bot' as it before is written; for the first offence, with XXX.
Pàgina 207 - Never before and never again for more than two hundred years were the commons so strong as they were under Henry IV.; and in spite of the dynastic question, the nation itself was strong in the determined action of the parliament.
Pàgina 217 - However highly we may be inclined to estimate the extent of royal and ecclesiastical property, it is difficult to overrate the quantity of land which during the middle ages remained in the hands of the great nobles. Encumbered and impoverished, in many instances, it undoubtedly was by the burdens of debt, heavy settlements and the necessities of a splendid expenditure; but these drawbacks only slightly affected the personal influence of the several lords over their tenants and neighbours. Although...
Pàgina 18 - I have let drop. I, then, Alfred, king of the West Saxons, showed these laws to all my Witan, and they then said that they all approved of them as proper to be holden.