History of the Landed Tenures of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time: Dedicated to the People of the United Kingdom |
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History of the Landed Tenures of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Norman ... Alfred A Walton No preview available - 2016 |
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32nd Henry VIII Acts of Parliament afterwards agricultural aids and scuttages ALLODIUM ancient annum armaments and expenditure baronial chiefs barons Becket BLOCKLAND burgage Charles Charles II charter church commenced Conquest considerable court crown lands Duke Earl Edward III effect England escheats established estates confiscated Europe European armaments Exchequer farmers favour favourites feudal FOLKLAND foreign founded granted heirs Henry VIII heriditamentis historians increased industry King John king's kingdom knights labour landed property landed tenures landlords Lord Magna Charta manors military tenants monopoly national debt nefarious traffic Norman Norman Conquest obliged occupied paid passed payment peace population portion possession present primogeniture principal private property property in land rack-rentism reduction rent revenues Richard royal Saxon socage soil sovereigns statute succeeded tallages taxation territorial tion of taxes towns trade traffic in land United Kingdom usurpation Welsh whole William William the Conqueror worth year's ditto
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Page 50 - How ill have they used us! and for what reason do they thus hold us in bondage? Are we not all descended from the same parents, Adam and Eve? and what can they show, or what reasons give, why they should be more the masters than ourselves?
Page 84 - ... Court of wards and liveries and tenures in capite, and by knights service, and purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof...
Page 34 - If any of our earls, or barons, or others, who hold of us in chief by military service, shall die, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age, and...
Page 41 - Canterbury, upon your see : I was obliged to employ both entreaties and menaces, my lord of Winchester, to have, you elected : my proceedings, I confess, were very irregular, my lords of Salisbury and Carlisle, when I raised you from the lowest stations to your present dignities : I am determined henceforth to correct these abuses ; and it will also become you, in order to make a thorough reformation, to resign your present benefices ; and try to enter again in a more regular and canonical manner.
Page 41 - It is true," replied the king, "I have been somewhat faulty in this particular: I obtruded you, my Lord of Canterbury, upon your see: I was obliged to employ both entreaties and menaces, my Lord of Winchester, to have you elected: my proceedings, I confess, were very irregular, my Lords of Salisbury and Carlisle, when I raised you from the lowest stations to your present dignities: I am determined henceforth to correct these abuses; and it will...
Page 19 - ... rendered England a scene of uninterrupted violence and devastation. Wars between the nobles were carried on with the utmost fury in every quarter ; the barons even assumed the right of coining money, and of exercising, without appeal, every act of jurisdiction...
Page 30 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you let them not.
Page 50 - They have wines, spices and fine bread, when we have only rye and the refuse of the straw ; and, if we drink, it must be water.
Page 30 - The church stood in my way, and I took my horse and my company, and went thither. I thought I should have found a great company in the church, and when I came there, the church door was fast locked.
Page 51 - and truth shall help you ! Now reigneth pride in price, and covetise is counted wise, and lechery withouten shame, and gluttony withouten blame. Envy reigneth with treason, and sloth is take in great season. God do bote, for now is tyme !