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Abridgment AD QUOD DAMNUM ancient anno appear apud Bishop British Museum Calendar Caley Catalogue Chancery Church collated collection commence contains copies Cottonian counties Court Crown demesne documents Domesday Book Domesday Survey Earl Ecclesiastical edition Edward the Confessor Edward the Second Edward the Third England Escheators Exchequer Fœdera Folio fuit granted habet heir Henry the Third History hundred Hundred Rolls Index Nominum INQUISITIO ELIENSIS INQUISITIONES Inquisitions King Edward King Henry King's lands Libræ Library Locorum Lord manor Manuscripts moneyers notices occur Office Originalia Parliament of Scotland Patent Rolls persons Pleadings Post Mortem preface prefixed preserved printed proceedings published Queen Quo Warranto Realm Registrum reign of Edward reign of Henry reign of King rent Retours Robert Rolls of Parliament Royal Charters Scotland Seal second volume seid Sheriffs shillings SPECIMENS Statutes Summons tenure Testa de Nevill Tower uxor VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS villans Westminster
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Page 2 - Bretons, who were quartered upon every landholder, and greatly oppressed the people. This apparent weakness, together with the grievances occasioned by a foreign force, might co-operate with the king's remonstrances, and the better incline the nobility to listen to his proposals for putting them in a posture of defence.
Page 2 - All this was to be triply estimated : first, as the estate was held in the time of the Confessor ; then as it was bestowed by King William ; and thirdly, as its value stood at the formation of the Survey. The jurors were, moreover, to state whether any advance could be made in the value.
Page 3 - England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hide nor a rood of land, nor — it is shameful to relate that which he thought no shame to do — was there an ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him.
Page 43 - Escheator in the county where the place was situated, commanding him to assemble a jury and to ascertain by their verdict whether it would be to the damage of the King or of others, if the privilege solicited were to be granted: thence called Inquisitions " ad
Page 10 - Saxon tyman propagare, to teem or bring forth, " signifies a royalty granted by the King's charter to the " lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging " bondmen, neifs, and villans, with their children, goods,
Page 92 - Chancery, it has been deemed adviseable to preface this work with some examples of the bills or petitions addressed to the Chancellors in each reign from the earliest period that any of them are known to be extant ; as they throw considerable light on the origin of the Court of Chancery, as a court of equitable jurisdiction ; and, whilst they point out the variations that have taken place from time to time in the course of proceeding in that court, and...
Page 56 - ... Original for the most part, which, though it were disused in the Lord Chancellor Cromwell's days, yet it was restored to its former use afterwards. The value of these rolls is also augmented by the circumstance of their containing entries of, and extracts from, other early rolls, not now in existence. Numerous notices of an historical and antiquarian nature occur in the
Page 87 - Marches of the same; but that the King's Highness, his heirs and successors kings of this realm shall have the whole and sole power and authority, thereof united and knit to the imperial crown of this realm as of good right and equity it appertaineth; any grants, usages, prescriptions, allowances, act or acts of parliament or any other thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 95 - Volume, extends from the earliest date of these Pleadings, to the Reign of Philip and Mary, including 5682 Records.