 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 452 pages
...age, to have devifed: That a merchant, who had made three long fea-voyagcs on his own account , fhould be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman. This prince died at Glocefler in the year 941 "', after a reign of fixteen1 years ; and was fucceedde by Edmund, his legitimate... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 442 pages
...kingdom; and the layr which he enacted, that a merchant who had .made three sea voyages of any length, on his own account, should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman, is a proof of judgment, soaring above the prejudices of the age.. He died at Glocester, after a reign... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...941, after a reign of 16 years. He passed a remarkable law, for the encouragement of commerce : viz. that a merchant, who had made three long sea voyages...should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman. S3 Athelstan was succeeded by his brother Edmund. EdmucJ. On bis accession, he found the kingdom disturbed... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - England - 1825 - 480 pages
...liberality of mind in that age to have devised ; that a merchant, who had made three long sea-voyages on his own account, should be admitted to the rank...gentleman. This prince died at Gloucester in the year 941,n after a reign of sixteen years, and was succeeded by Edmund, his legitimate brother. .. - •... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - England - 1826 - 462 pages
...the real foundation of the power of England was founded in commerce, by enacting the remarkable law, that a merchant who had made three long sea voyages...be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman." , A. — The new king encountered an opposition from Anlaf, a powerful Dane settled in Northumberland,... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - England - 1826 - 450 pages
...the real foundation of the power of England was founded in commerce, by enacting the remarkable law, that a merchant who had made three long sea voyages...account, should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman.1' A. — The new king encountered an opposition from Anlaf, a powerful Dane settled in Northumberland,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...liberality of mind, in that age, to devise; namely, that a merchant, who had made three long sea-voyages on his own account, should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman. It may be added, for the honour of trade, ' that some of the Italian princes, looking on themselves... | |
 | George Norton - 1829 - 578 pages
...Londoners before alluded to, forming, as it were, a code of civic ordinances, it was ordained, — that a merchant, who had made three long sea voyages on his own account, should be entitled to the quality of a thane, or nobleman fA more accurate judgement, however, may be drawn from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...a remarkable law, for the encouragement of commerce ; viz. that a merchant who had made three long voyages on his own account, should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman ; and died in 941, after reigning sixteen years. He was succeeded by his brother Edmund I, On his accession... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 324 pages
...distinction of superior and inferior is commonly very strongly marked. One of the laws of Athelstan declared, that a merchant who had made three long sea voyages on his own account was entitled to the quality of thane; and another declared that a ceorle, or husbandman, who had been... | |
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... that a merchant, who had made three long sea voyages on his own account, should be admitted to the rank of a thane or gentleman. 
