Mediaeval England, from the English Settlement to the Reformation

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Walter Scott Dalgleish
T.Nelson and sons, 1896 - 276 páginas
 

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Página 125 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Página 171 - Bull, there were to be seven princely electors: the archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne, the king of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony, and the Margrave of Brandenburg.
Página 56 - High German' alone, that is, the dialects of south and central Germany, and the principal specimens of the oldest High German literature date only from the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century.
Página 162 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are 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 assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Página 125 - No scutage or aid shall be imposed upon the kingdom, except by the common council of the kingdom, unless it be to redeem the King's body, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter ; and that to be a reasonable aid : and in like manner shall it be concerning the...
Página 98 - The King, who was in Normandy when the news of this reached him, happened to say, " Is there none of the cowards eating my bread who will free me from this turbulent priest?
Página 148 - you shall either go or hang." " By God, Sir King," replied the Earl, " I shall neither go nor hang ;" and Edward was forced to give way.
Página 139 - AD prised in the assembly. This was the first outline of our modern Parliament, the prelates and barons corresponding to the House of Lords, the others to the House of Commons, which accordingly dates from this time.
Página 122 - Stephen Langton, Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, whose nomination to that see John had opposed, appeared as the chief champion of English freedom in this struggle between people and King. Born in Lincolnshire or Devonshire, he grafted on a stem of English growth the polish and subtlety which could then be acquired only at Paris or at Rome. At a Great Council, held in St. Paul's in 1213, he laid before the assembled prelates and barons the charter granted by Henry I.
Página 183 - A few days after they appeared in his presence, armed, and attended with armed followers ; and they accused, by name, the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Ireland, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Robert Tresilian, and Sir Nicholas Brembre, as public and dangerous enemies to the state.

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