Publications. Historical Series, Volume 46

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Page ii - MA, Secretary) 23 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD, MANCHESTER LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., LTD. LONDON : 39 Paternoster Row, EC4 NEW YORK : 55 Fifth Avenue TORONTO : 210 Victoria Street . BOMBAY : 53 Nicol Road CALCUTTA : 6 Old Court House Street MADRAS : 167 Mount Road PKEFACE THE chronicle here printed is not an entirely new discovery.
Page 25 - Si vicecomes iret in Wales cum exercitu, ibant hi homines cum eo. Quod si quis ire jussus non iret, emendabat regi XL solidos.
Page 199 - There is no definite reference to elections in the county court in John's reign, if allowance be made for the rather obvious exception of the selection of a sheriff of Devon. But the principle was already known. The various groups of persons whom the King desired to convene, however, including the four discreet men from each county in 1213, he merely directed the sheriff to send. The first, clear case of the choice of men by county courts to speak for the county at large in any matter occurs in 1226.
Page 20 - ... for all cases. With the person who in the reign of Ethelred, if not earlier, appears in the alderman's absence as the leading lay official in the shiremote begins the recorded history of the sheriff as differentiated from that of the king's reeve. About the last decade of the tenth century this official is termed a gerefa and also a...
Page 70 - By the early years of the twelfth century the long process of reducing the sheriff's power was under way.
Page 262 - ... king of Scots paid a visit at the royal court, sheriffs and bishops were directed to conduct him from county to county until he returned to the Tweed.3 In 1253 the sheriff of Northumberland received the monarch of the same realm in the castle of Newcastle-on-Tyne and found him wines and provisions.4 In 1260 eight sheriffs had orders to meet the king of Scotland and his wife, the king's daughter, when they came to their bailiwicks, to offer them the king's castle, manors and game in his parks...
Page 176 - II, stat. 2, they were to be assigned by the Chancellor, Treasurer, Barons of the Exchequer, and Justices of either Bench.

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