...stood.' — These steps, which occur in all the romances, were what we should now call horse-blocks : they were frequently placed on the roads, and in the...the barons took their seats when they determined the differences between their vassals, and from whence the publick criers made proclamations to the people....

...still remain in Paris, where they were used by the magistrates in order to mount their mules, on wliich they rode to the courts of justice. On these blocks,...the barons took their seats when they determined the diflerences between their vassals, oud'froiu whence the publick criers made proclamations to tlie people."...

...those Knights who wished to challenge all comers to feats of arms. They were also sometimes used as л place of judgment, and a rostrum, on which the barons took their seats when they determined the differences between their vassals, and from whence the publick eriers made proclamations to the people."...

...may fairly presume that such stones are some of the old Meini Tervyn of the Welsh Laws. MAEN PENTAN, or pentanvaen (the back-fire stone), stands, as we...There is nothing, however, in its name which would inARCH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. I. P dicate its original use, or the object for which it was raised,...

...possible that some of those circular huts, which are so universally termed " cyttie" by archseologians, are remains of British kilns ? ESGYNVAEN, or the horse-block,...There is nothing, however, in its name which would inAUUH. CAMB., NEW SERIES, VOL. I. P dicate its original use, or the object for which it was raised,...

...Way's Fabliaux, has the following remarks upon horse-blocks, which are mentioned in a vast number of old romances : — ' They were frequently placed on...their vassals, and from whence the public criers made proclamation to the people.' " The Llanrhaiudr stone, with its " feats of arms," had a faint parallelism...

...which was most probably the prototype from which it was indirectly derived. HORSEBLOCK. — Page 13. ELLIS, in his Notes to Way's Fabliaux, has the following...the barons took their seats when they determined the differences between their vassals, and from whence the publick criers made proclamations to the people."—...

...Page 13. ELLIS, in his Notes to Way's Fabliaux, has the following remarks upon horseblocks, which arc mentioned in a vast number of the old Romances : "...the barons took their seats when they determined the differences between their vassals, and from whence the publick criers made proclamations to the people."...

...near them, were usually suspended the shields of those Knights who wished to challenge all coiners to feats of arms. They were also sometimes used as a place of judgment, and a rostrum, on which the baroos took their seats when they determined the differences between their vassals, and from whence...

...these blocks, or on the tree which was generally planted near them, were usually suspended the shield of those knights who wished to challenge all comers...the barons took their seats when they determined the differences between their rassels, and from whence publick criers made proclamations to the people."...