Outlines and Documents of English Constitutional History During the Middle Ages

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Charles Luke Wells, Frank Maloy Anderson
University Book Store, 1895 - Great Britain - 54 pages
 

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Page 28 - ... relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief; that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for...
Page 29 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water: furthermore, we will and grant that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Page 44 - ... kingdom; we command you, strictly enjoining you in the fidelity and love in which you are bound to us, that on the Lord's day next after the feast of St. Martin, in the approaching winter, you be present in person at Westminster...
Page 31 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 27 - Hugh, and others our liegemen have, in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever: 1.
Page 31 - No sheriff or bailiff of ours, or any other, shall take horses or carts of any freeman for carriage, but by the good-will of the said freeman.
Page 27 - Earl of Pembroke, WILLIAM. Earl of Salisbury, WILLIAM, Earl of Warren, WILLIAM, Earl of Arundel, ALAN DE GALLOWAY, Constable of Scotland, WARIN...
Page 45 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of...
Page 46 - ... towards our wars and other business, of their own grant and goodwill, howsoever they were made, might turn to a bondage to them and their heirs, because they might be at another time found in the rolls, and...
Page 31 - To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay, right or justice.

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