Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History Down to the Great Charter, Volume 1University Press, 1908 |
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... knight- service . We shall consider here the question as a whole , and at a slightly different angle , in order that the reader may the more clearly account for the differences which separate English and French society during that ...
... knight- service . We shall consider here the question as a whole , and at a slightly different angle , in order that the reader may the more clearly account for the differences which separate English and French society during that ...
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... knights from the rest of the freemen ; military service is not strictly confined to the tenure by knight service , and the knight's fee might even be held by a freeman who was not a knight . liber homo To sum up , in England there is no ...
... knights from the rest of the freemen ; military service is not strictly confined to the tenure by knight service , and the knight's fee might even be held by a freeman who was not a knight . liber homo To sum up , in England there is no ...
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... knight service . In practice , of course , they were subjects of the keenest interest for members of the nobility , and it is for this reason , that , in the Great Charter , the baronage took particular precautions to prevent the crown ...
... knight service . In practice , of course , they were subjects of the keenest interest for members of the nobility , and it is for this reason , that , in the Great Charter , the baronage took particular precautions to prevent the crown ...
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... knight service , per servitium militare . The holder of a knight's fee owes in theory military service for forty days . In the twelfth knight service century the king often demanded , instead of personal service , a tax called scutage.1 ...
... knight service , per servitium militare . The holder of a knight's fee owes in theory military service for forty days . In the twelfth knight service century the king often demanded , instead of personal service , a tax called scutage.1 ...
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... knight hired for forty days . servants reckoned , in the thirteenth century , that William the Conqueror had created 32,000 knights ' fees . It has been calculated that in reality the king of England could not count on more than 5,000 ...
... knight hired for forty days . servants reckoned , in the thirteenth century , that William the Conqueror had created 32,000 knights ' fees . It has been calculated that in reality the king of England could not count on more than 5,000 ...
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Page 136 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae.
Page 101 - Londoniarum habeat omnes antiquas libertates et liberas consuetudines suas, tam per terras quam per aquas. Preterea volumus et concedimus quod omnes alie civitates, et burgi, et ville, et portus, habeant omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines suas.
Page 33 - ... ut omnino desit locus, ubi filii nobilium aut emeritorum militum possessionem accipere possint...