Public Records: A Description of the Contents, Objects, and Uses of the Various Works Printed by Authority of the Record Commission; for the Advancement of Historical and Antiquarian Knowledge

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Baldwin and Craddock, 1831 - 135 pages
 

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Page 1 - England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hide nor a rood of land, nor — it is shameful to relate that which he thought no shame to do — was there an ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him.
Page 82 - King's precept was begun in that year (1288) and finished as to the province of Canterbury in 1291, and as to that of York, in the following year; the whole being under the direction of John, Bishop of Winton, and Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln. A Third Taxation, entitled, Nova Taxatio...
Page 8 - Saxon tyman propagare, to teem or bring forth, " signifies a royalty granted by the King's charter to the " lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging " bondmen, neifs, and villans, with their children, goods,
Page 92 - slee, slee the thefe;' ' shote, shote the thefe,' by force of which cry all the people there being, surrounded the said suppliant in great numbers, and some of them bent their bows ; and some drew their swords and daggers to kill the said suppliant. Whereupon, among others, a servant of the said John Forster shot the said suppliant with an arrow through all his cloaths into his arm, and thereupon he commanded the said servant to cut off his head, and the strangers there would not...
Page 86 - ... the rents resolute to the chief lords, and all other annual and perpetual rents and charges which any spiritual person...
Page 90 - Chancery, it has been deemed adviseable to preface this work with some examples of the bills or petitions addressed to the Chancellors in each reign from the earliest period that any of them are known to be extant ; as they throw considerable light on the origin of the Court of Chancery, as a court of equitable jurisdiction ; and, whilst they point out the variations that have taken place from time to time in the course of proceeding in that court, and...

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