Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... shires . He kept the old divisions of shire and hundred ; the shire - courts where , under the royal sheriff's eye , the freemen interpreted the customary law of the locality , and the hundred- courts where representatives of the ...
... shires . He kept the old divisions of shire and hundred ; the shire - courts where , under the royal sheriff's eye , the freemen interpreted the customary law of the locality , and the hundred- courts where representatives of the ...
Page 160
... shire , of the petty freeholders of the villages and the burgesses of the free towns . The first , increasingly styled knights of the shire , performed a multitude of duties . They served as sheriffs , escheators and coroners , and as ...
... shire , of the petty freeholders of the villages and the burgesses of the free towns . The first , increasingly styled knights of the shire , performed a multitude of duties . They served as sheriffs , escheators and coroners , and as ...
Page 163
... shire - court , presided over by the sheriff , which met once a month in the south and every six weeks in the wilder north . Held in some spot hallowed by immemorial usage and dating back to days when the shire had been almost an ...
... shire - court , presided over by the sheriff , which met once a month in the south and every six weeks in the wilder north . Held in some spot hallowed by immemorial usage and dating back to days when the shire had been almost an ...
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