Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIt CenturiesS. Sonnenschein, 1895 - 587 pages |
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Page 133 - Walchelinum et per ceteros qui terras sanctae ^Edeldrede scribi et jurari fecerunt, quomodo jurate fuerunt et qui eas juraverunt, et qui jurationem audierunt, et qui sunt terre, et quante, et quot, et quomodo vocate [et] qui eas tenent. His distincte notatis et scriptis fac ut cite inde rei veritatem per tuum breve sciam. Et cum eo veniat legatus abbatis.
Page 298 - Conqueror episcopatus quoque et abbatias omnes quae baronias tenebant, et eatenus ab omni servitute seculari libertatem habuerant, sub servitute statuit militari, inrotulans episcopatus et abbatias pro voluntate sua quot milites sibi et successoribus suis hostilitatis tempore voluit a singulis exhiberi (Historia Anglonan, i.
Page 405 - Comitis incidit. Quem idem Comes captum cum suis confestim in custodia trusit." But this does not imply that Abbeville was the place of imprisonment. William of Poitiers, William of Malme'bury, and Benoit do not mention any particular p\ace.
Page x - Accurate, and minute measurement seems, to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labor in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Page 140 - Survey, is differently state i by historians. The Red Book of the Exchequer seems to have been erroneously quoted, as fixing the time of entrance upon it in 1080; it being merely stated in that record, that the work was undertaken at a time subsequent to the total reduction of the island to William's authority. It is evident that it was finished in 1086. Matthew Paris, Robert of Gloucester, the Annals of Waverley, and the Chronicle of Bermondsey, give...
Page 411 - This, then, is another coincidence between the two writers, while, as before, Wace found himself in the presence of a conflict of authorities. On yet another difficult point, the accession of Harold, I see a marked agreement, though Mr Freeman did not. Harold, according to William of Malmesbury, extorta a principibusfide, arripuit diadema, and diademate fastigiatus, nihil de pactis inter se et Willelmum cogitabat.
Page 271 - Seebohm should connect the acreage of the hide with the comparatively late scutage, urging that ' in choosing the acreage of the standard hide and virgate, a number of acres was probably assumed corresponding with the monetary system, so that the number of pence in the scutum should correspond with the number of acres assessed to its payment
Page 295 - ... England. The quotas of knight service were not estimated on the basis of the number of five-hide units contained in the fief, but were determined arbitrarily by the king. The number of differing fiefs assessed at precisely the same amount of knight service proves that the assessment was wholly arbitrary. The knight's fee, held by an undertenant, consisted normally of an estate worth £20 a year, and was not based on the five hides of the Anglo-Saxon system. The whole number of knights' fees for...
Page 277 - omnibus (contra antiquum morem et debitam libertatem) indixit ecclesiis ut pro arbitrio ejus satraparum suorum conferrunt in censum...
Page 268 - The famous scutage, the acceptance of a money composition for military service, alike for the old English service of the fyrd " [this, of course, is a misconception], " and for the newer military tenures, dates from this (1 159) time " (Freeman's Norman Conquest, v.