Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to the Great Charter, Volume 2

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Page 274 - Finally, numerous people made use of the insurrection to revenge themselves on their personal enemies. Whether one considers its principal or its secondary causes, it is true to say that the revolt of 1381 was, so to speak, a settlement of old scores of every kind. It was above all an eruption of long-cherished
Page 181 - quacunque occasione ; et si quid perdonaverint de rectis régis pro praemio vel promissione vel pro amicitia aliqua ... et si forestarii vel baillivi eorum aliquem ceperint vel attachiaverint per vadium et plegium, vel retaverint, et postea sine judicio per se relaxaverint ..." On this Inquest, ordered by Henry II in 1170, after an absence of four years from England, see Stubbs, Const. Hist., i. 510 sqq., and Sel. Charters, pp.
Page 220 - and on 2 April he commanded the sheriffs 4 to enforce the observance of the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest, the latter " according to the articles written below " : a copy of the charter was annexed, from which the articles regarding disafforestment were omitted.
Page 183 - Quod rex interius audiens risit, et exivit obviam ei. Cui prior : ' Vos tangit haec parabola, quia, pauperibus quos hii torquent paradisum ingressis, cum forestaras foris stabitis. ' Rex autem hoc verbum serium habuit pro ridiculo, et ut Salomón excelsa non abstulit, foréstanos
Page 165 - anomaly. They were withdrawn from the operation of the common law and of the custom of the realm, and governed by rules laid down in special assizes and ordinances. In them, too, there lived troops of royal officers, who alone were allowed to bear arms and who were pledged by oath to serve the interests of the king. The Forest was the stronghold of arbitrary power,
Page 278 - full of inflammable material and at the mercy of a spark. It must not be supposed, however, that there was any lack of agitators to excite popular passion. A statute of May 1382 tells us of the activity
Page 150 - A Forest doth consist of eight things, videlicet of soil, covert, laws, courts, judges, officers, game, and certain bounds " (Coke, Fourth part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, ed. 1644, p. 289). 2. The word
Page 250 - faire leurs labourages ou marchandises, et commettent plusieurs larrecins de grosses bestes et de connins, etc. ..." Falling into idleness, they "deviennent larrons, murtriers, espieurs de chemins." 3. This theory was put forward again, in the
Page 292 - The charter of liberties which Tyler wished to dictate to the king may therefore be taken as a faithful summary of the hopes which the leaders had excited in the breasts of the insurgents from Essex and Kent. When the rebels lost their chief and dispersed to their homes,
Page 246 - Dupont, Soc. d'Hist. de France, 1837, p. 187) contains a curious passage concerning the pity felt by Henry V—in France, at any rate—for the people who were oppressed by the owners of warrens : " Le povre peuple l'amoit sur tous autres; car il estoit tout conclu de

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