The feudal forms of Scotland viewed historically

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Page 57 - Cuthbert, and this church, with a ploughgate of land, I have given to God and St. Cuthbert and his Monks, to be possessed by them for evermore.
Page 111 - Scots to all good men of his whole land greeting. Know ye that we have given, granted and, by this our present Charter, confirmed to our...
Page 130 - ... feoffors and not of the chief lords of the fees, whereby the same chief lords have many times lost their escheats, marriages, and wardships of lands and tenements belonging to their fees...
Page 128 - He ordered that it should be boiled in a caldron till the flesh parted from the bones, and that then the bones should be wrapped up in a bull's hide, and carried at the head of the English army, as often as the Scots attempted to recover their freedom. He thought that he had inflicted such distresses on the Scots, and invaded and defeated them so often, that his very dead bones would terrify them. His son, Edward the Second, did not choose to execute this strange injunction, but caused his father...
Page 131 - ... sold ; and so in this case the same part of the service shall remain to the lord, to be taken by the hands of the feoffee, for the which he ought to be attendant and answerable to the same chief lord according to the quantity of the land or tenement sold for the parcel of the service so due.
Page 105 - Eversden greeting. Know ye that I have given, granted and by this my present charter confirmed to God and St...
Page 60 - Irish, of all his dominions, greeting : know ye that I have given and granted, and by this my charter confirmed...
Page 197 - And with and under this limitation and restriction also, that it shall not be lawful to, nor in the power of...

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