History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... possessed by a legitimate and constitutional monarchy , that it trembles neither at the recitals of history nor at the criticisms of rea- son . It is based upon truth , -and truth is consequently neither hostile nor dangerous to it ...
... possessed by a legitimate and constitutional monarchy , that it trembles neither at the recitals of history nor at the criticisms of rea- son . It is based upon truth , -and truth is consequently neither hostile nor dangerous to it ...
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... possessing no landed property . The thanes were subdivided into two classes ; king's thanes , and inferior thanes . This distinction is not merely a historical fact ; the laws recog nize these two divisions . The composition for the ...
... possessing no landed property . The thanes were subdivided into two classes ; king's thanes , and inferior thanes . This distinction is not merely a historical fact ; the laws recog nize these two divisions . The composition for the ...
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... possessing property , and when they owned five hides of land they passed into the class of thanes , as did also merchants who had made three voyages to foreign lands . Hence the origin of the English yeomanry . The yeoman is the ...
... possessing property , and when they owned five hides of land they passed into the class of thanes , as did also merchants who had made three voyages to foreign lands . Hence the origin of the English yeomanry . The yeoman is the ...
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... possessed five hides of land . The thanes alone , to speak truly , played an active part in history . Passing now to the institutions which connected and governed these different classes , we find them to be of two kinds ; central ...
... possessed five hides of land . The thanes alone , to speak truly , played an active part in history . Passing now to the institutions which connected and governed these different classes , we find them to be of two kinds ; central ...
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... possessing the same rights and the same obligations , to deliberate in common upon affairs of common interest . These were the predominant institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . Norman feudalism could not entirely abolish them . At this ...
... possessing the same rights and the same obligations , to deliberate in common upon affairs of common interest . These were the predominant institutions of the Anglo - Saxons . Norman feudalism could not entirely abolish them . At this ...
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Page 366 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of holy Church, and to the profit of our realm, have granted for us and our heirs, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest, which were made by common assent of all the realm, in the time of King Henry our father, shall be kept in every point without breach.