Report and Transactions - The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volumes 57-58List of members in each volume. |
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Page 258 - Edward by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine, to all to whom the present letters come, greeting.
Page 61 - John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou...
Page 115 - By hue and officers and private men are concerned, and that is upon an " hue and cry raised upon a felony committed. An hue, from huer, to shout, and cry, hutesium et clamor, is the old common law process of pursuing, with horn and with voice, all •felons, and such as have dangerously wounded another (t).
Page 131 - There is a curious superstition in Devonshire, that the departure of life is delayed whilst any lock is closed in the dwelling or any bolt shot. It is a practice, therefore, when a dying person is at the last extremity, to open every door in the house. This notion extends even to the supposition that a beam over the head of the dying man impedes the departure of the spirit.
Page 234 - We may have much yet to learn of the animal life of the Devonian ; but for the present the great plan of vegetable nature goes beyond our measures of utility; and there remains only what is perhaps the most wonderful and suggestive correlation of all, namely, that our minds are able to trace in these perished organisms structures similar to those of modern plants, and thus to reproduce in imagination the forms and habits of growth of living things which so long preceded us on the earth.
Page 158 - ... shall be transferred to the Public Record Office, or to any public library, or museum or historical or antiquarian society, which may be willing to receive the same...
Page 158 - ... such documents relate, or the governing body of any public library, or museum or historical or antiquarian society, to which the same may have been transferred, as hereinafter provided, shall furnish the Master of the Rolls with all such information with respect thereto as he may require.
Page 115 - A benefice merely given and collated by the patron to a man, without either presentation to the ordinary, or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.
Page 190 - ... (Know ye that I Robert de Courtenay have given and granted and... confirmed with the consent and assent of Mary my wife and of my heirs, to my burgesses of my free borough of Okehampton, all their tenements and free customs, which they had in the time of Richard fitz Baldwin and Robert the King's son, and Matilda of Haverenges his wife and of Hawisia...
Page 115 - ... or return, his rent or service for the land he claimed to hold. If he held only half a knight's fee, he was only bound to attend twenty days, and so in proportion.