Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to the Great Charter, Volume 1University Press, 1908 |
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... ceorl was a serf . And as in the laws of Ethelbert a century older , there is mention of hams or tuns belonging to private individuals or to the king , the manor must already have existed at the end of the sixth century . Now , the ...
... ceorl was a serf . And as in the laws of Ethelbert a century older , there is mention of hams or tuns belonging to private individuals or to the king , the manor must already have existed at the end of the sixth century . Now , the ...
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... ceorl is a serf ; he is the conquered native ; the Saxon conquerors are the lords of manors , the successors of great Roman landowners . He takes no account of the texts which prove the freedom of the ceorl , and the existence of the ...
... ceorl is a serf ; he is the conquered native ; the Saxon conquerors are the lords of manors , the successors of great Roman landowners . He takes no account of the texts which prove the freedom of the ceorl , and the existence of the ...
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... ceorl , the twyhynd - man.1 The Norman element This social state , further complicated by the persistence of slavery , was the natural product of very remote antecedents , the fruit of the development and friction of several ...
... ceorl , the twyhynd - man.1 The Norman element This social state , further complicated by the persistence of slavery , was the natural product of very remote antecedents , the fruit of the development and friction of several ...
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... ceorl , who has a wergild of one - sixth of that amount . Similarly the oath of the twelfhynd - man , in a court of justice , is worth six times that of the ceorl . The intermediate class of sixhynd - men possessed a wergild of 600 ...
... ceorl , who has a wergild of one - sixth of that amount . Similarly the oath of the twelfhynd - man , in a court of justice , is worth six times that of the ceorl . The intermediate class of sixhynd - men possessed a wergild of 600 ...
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... ceorl . For example , if the composition to be paid is 200 shillings , an oath proferred by two twelfhynd - men is necessary . But Mr. Chadwick has not succeeded in explaining the origin of the expression " oath of thirty hides . " Mr ...
... ceorl . For example , if the composition to be paid is 200 shillings , an oath proferred by two twelfhynd - men is necessary . But Mr. Chadwick has not succeeded in explaining the origin of the expression " oath of thirty hides . " Mr ...
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