History of the hundred of Carhampton

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Bristol, 1830
 

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313. oldal - 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 SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
646. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
77. oldal - Mark the sable woods That shade sublime yon mountain's nodding brow; With what religious awe the solemn scene Commands your steps ! as if the reverend form Of Minos or of Numa should forsake The Elysian seats, and down the embowering glade Move to your pausing eye...
323. oldal - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
9. oldal - And by statute 8 Eliz. c. 13, the corporation of the trinityhouse are impowered to set up any beacons or sea-marks wherever they shall think them necessary; and if the owner of the land, or any other person, shall destroy them, or shall take down any steeple, tree or other known sea-mark, he shall forfeit 100/, or in case of inability to pay it, shall be ipso facto outlawed.
629. oldal - It is divided into five books, and these into tracts and chapters. Consistently with the extensiveness and regularity of the plan, the several parts of it are filled with a curious and accurate detail of legal learning, so that the reader never fails of deriving instruction or amusement from the study of tbis scientific treatise on our ancient laws and) customs.
41. oldal - IV., to whose predecessors in the See of Rome, the first fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices had for a long time been paid, gave the same, AD 1253, to King Henry III. for three years; which occasioned a taxation in the following year, sometimes called the Norwich taxation, and sometimes Pope Innocent's valor.
647. oldal - For some time before his death, all his fears were calmed and absorbed by the prevalence of his faith, and his trust in the merits and propitiation of Jesus Christ. " He talked often to me about the necessity of faith in the sacrifice of Jesus, as necessary beyond all good works whatever for the salvation of mankind.
4. oldal - France a regulation of this sort was made about two hundred years before ; set on foot by Clotharius and Childebert, with a view of obliging each district to answer for the robberies committed in its own division. These divisions were, in that country, as well military as civil ; and each contained a hundred freemen, who were subject to an officer called the centenarius; a number of which centenarii were themselves subject to a superior officer called the count or [ 117 ] conies".
351. oldal - ... potency of wit and the brilliancy of comic humour, which constantly excited shouts of laughter throughout the precincts of the court, — the mirthful glee even extending itself to the ermined sages, who found too much amusement in the scene to check the fascinating actor of it. He assisted the great powers of his understanding by an indefatigable industry, not commonly annexed to extraordinary genius; and he kept his mind open for the admission of knowledge, by the most unaffected modesty of...

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