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afterward aged ancient annual value appears attend the muster baron bart belonging bishop bordars borough Bossington Bratton Bristol Bristol Channel Byam called Carhampton chancel charity church county of Devon county of Somerset Courtenay Culbone Cutcombe death demesne died Domesday Book Dorset Dunster Castle earl Edward III eldest Elizabeth England Escott Everard Fownes Luttrell Geoffrey Hales half a knight's heir held Henry Henry III hill holds Hugh Luttrell Irnham issue Joan John de Mohun John Luttrell King Edward king's knight's fee Legge Lord Luccombe Luxborough manor married Mary miles Minehead monument paid parish parliament persons ploughs poor Porlock pound present priory Ralph rector reign rent Richard Robert Selworthy shillings Sir John Somerset stone summoned Taunton tenants Thomas Timberscombe tithes town Treborough trustees twelve vicar villans virgate wife William de Mohun Williton Withycombe wood Wootton-Courtenay
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Page 315 - 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.
Page 649 - 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.
Page 41 - 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.
Page 48 - Somerseteshire go beyond this streame one way by north west a 2. miles or more to a place caullid the Spanne, and the Tourres, for ther be hillokkes of yerth cast up of auncient tyme for markes and limites betwixt Somersetshir and Devonshire ; and here about is the limes and boundes of Exmore forest.
Page 353 - 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 deportment. The harmony of his periods, and the accuracy of his expressions, in his most unpremeditated speeches, were not among the least of his oratorical accomplishments.
Page 41 - I. for six years, towards defraying the expenses of an expedition to the Holy Land, and that they might be collected to their full value, a taxation by the King's precept was begun in that year, 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
Page 4 - Denmark :a and we find that in France a regulation of this sort was made above 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...
Page 143 - Hemastaticks," and came out in 1733. In this the subject of the urinary calculus also is. treated chemically and medically. With a laudable view of preventing as well as curing, the sufferings and crimes of his fellow-creatures, this good man published anonymously " a friendly admonition to the drinkers of gin, brandy, and other spirituous liquors," which has often been reprinted and distributed gratis, by those who consider the temporal and eternal interests of their fellow subjects rather than...
Page 421 - hem, in the south side of the body of the church a fair large door with a porch, and the same for christening of children and weddings*." Somner relates, that in 1299 Edward I. was married at Canterbury to Margaret, sister to the King of France, by Archbishop Winchelsea, " in ostio ecclesiae versus claustrum*.