I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king... The Early and Middle Ages of England - Page 424by Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 pages
...fealty, placing his joined hands between those of the sitting baron, and 25 humbly saying as he knelt, " I become your man from this day forward, of life and limb and of earthly worship; and unto you I shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you,... | |
| Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1898 - 702 pages
...together between those of his chief, bound himself to the fortunes of the latter, by humbly saying: "I become your man, from this day forward, of life...and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith, for the tenements I claim to hold of you% * * " Let it not be understood, that voluntary... | |
| Sir Thomas Littleton - 1903 - 446 pages
...his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord, and shall say thus : I become your man from this day forward [of life and...faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then... | |
| Frederic William Maitland - 1911 - 584 pages
...— the tenant kneels before his lord and holds his hands between the hands of his lord, and says, ' I become your man from this day forward of life and...and faithful and bear to you faith for the tenements that I hold of you ' — then, if the lord be not the king, he adds these noteworthy words, ' saving... | |
| Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie - 1912 - 724 pages
...fulfil, that our agreement was, when I to him submitted, and chose his will." Another form of oath was: "I become your man from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship * * *." (ib. p. [124] 16). The author adds, "But it is repugnant to our ideas to think that any man... | |
| William Pinckney Fishback, Arnold Bennett Hall - 1915 - 576 pages
...both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord and shall say thus: 'I become your man from this day forward of life and...faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king;' and then... | |
| James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - 1920 - 554 pages
...his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord and shall say thus: — 'I become your man from this day forward of life and...worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful.' And then the lord so sitting shall kiss him." In simple homage there is a reservation; as thus: — "Saving... | |
| James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - 1920 - 552 pages
...his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord and shall say thus:—'I become your man from this day forward of life and...worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful.' And then the lord so sitting shall kiss him." In simple homage there is a reservation; as thus:—"Saving... | |
| 1847 - 616 pages
...his knees, and bold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord, anil shall say thus, ' I become your man from this day forward, of life and...and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements and claim to hold of you (saving the faith that I owe unto our Sovereign... | |
| Richard Burn - 2004 - 904 pages
...hold his hands extended and joined together between the hands of his lord, and fhall fay thus: "• I become your man from this day forward, of life " and limb and earthly honour, and to you will be faithful « and loyal, and bear you faith, for the tenements that... | |
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