The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the United Kingdom, by H.A. Merewether and A.J. Stephens, Volume 1 |
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Page 4 - ... si qui aut privatus aut publicus eorum decreto non stetit, sacrifices interdicunt Haec poena apud eos est gravissima. Quibus ita est interdictum, ii numero impiorum ac sceleratorum habentur ; iis omnes decedunt, aditum eorum sermonemque defugiunt, ne quid ex contagione incommodi accipiant : neque iis petentibus jus redditur, neque honos ullus communicatur.
Page 228 - England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires, dwelling within the same counties, whereby...
Page 431 - Mortmwn. it shall not be lawful from henceforth, to any to give his lands to any religious house, and to take the same land again to hold of the same house. Nor shall it be lawful...
Page 428 - A freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault but after the manner of the fault; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise.
Page 441 - if one " of the officers of the forest put one seal to the rolls by assent " of all the verderers, and other officers, it is as good as if every " one had put his several seal; as in case divers men enter into " an obligation, and they all consent, and set but one seal to " it, it is a good obligation of them all.
Page 285 - William the King friendly salutes William the Bishop and Godfrey the portreve, and all the burgesses within London, both French and English. And I declare that I grant you to be all law-worthy as you were in the days of King Edward ; and I grant that every child shall be his father's heir, after his father's days ; and I will not suffer any person to do you wrong. God keep you.
Page 293 - And if any shall take toll or custom of any citizen of London, the citizens of London in the city shall take of the borough or town, where toll or custom was so taken, so much as the man of London gave for toll, and as he received damage thereby...
Page 430 - And all these customs and liberties aforesaid, which we have granted to be holden within this our realm, as much as appertaineth to us and our heirs, we shall observe. And...
Page 493 - I. st. 4, c. 1, which b enacts, that no talliage or aid shall be taken without the assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other freemen of the land : and again, by 14 Edw.
Page 227 - England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive number of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires, dwelling within the same counties...