Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 163
... Held in some spot hallowed by immemorial usage and dating back to days when the shire had been almost an independent province , it was attended , not only by litigants , but by all , either in person or deputy who , holding freehold ...
... Held in some spot hallowed by immemorial usage and dating back to days when the shire had been almost an independent province , it was attended , not only by litigants , but by all , either in person or deputy who , holding freehold ...
Page 164
... held once every three weeks by a bailiff to whom the sheriff or the owner of the hundred jurisdiction had sublet its profits , but who , as a royal officer , was responsible to the sheriff or , in a few special cases , directly to the ...
... held once every three weeks by a bailiff to whom the sheriff or the owner of the hundred jurisdiction had sublet its profits , but who , as a royal officer , was responsible to the sheriff or , in a few special cases , directly to the ...
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... held judicial appointments and could be trusted to do his will . Never again , he declared , would he employ anyone as chief minister whom he could not hang if guilty of felony . Believing , or affecting to believe , that his life was ...
... held judicial appointments and could be trusted to do his will . Never again , he declared , would he employ anyone as chief minister whom he could not hang if guilty of felony . Believing , or affecting to believe , that his life was ...
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Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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