England Under Henry III: Illustrated from Contemporary Sources

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Margaret Alice Hennings
Longmans, Green and Company, 1924 - Great Britain - 281 pages

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Page 149 - ... relief" he shall have his inheritance on payment of the ancient relief, namely the heir or heirs of an earl, £100 for a whole earl's barony; the heir or heirs of a baron, £100 for a whole barony; the heir or heirs of a knight, 100s.
Page 148 - John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou...
Page 149 - CHAPTER I. A Confirmation of Liberties. " FIRST, we have granted to God, and by this our present Charter have confirmed for us and our heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole rights and liberties inviolable.
Page 149 - If any of our earls, or barons, or others, who hold of us in chief by military service, shall die, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age, and...
Page 150 - ... husband; and she may remain in the house of her husband for forty days after his death, within which time her dower shall be assigned to her.
Page 155 - ... are of the land at war with us. And if such are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be...
Page 155 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 150 - ... and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall answer for the issues to us, or to him to whom we...
Page 166 - The twelve on the king's side have elected out of the twelve on that of the commonalty the Earl Roger the Marshall, and Hugh Bigot. And the party of commonalty have elected out of the twelve who are on the king's side the Earl of Warwick and John Mansel. And these four have power to elect the council of the king, and when they have elected them, they shall present them to the twenty-four ; and there, where the greater part of these agree, it shall be held.
Page 154 - We will not have the wardship of an heir, nor of any land which he holds of another by military service, by reason of any petty serjeantry he holds of us, as by the service of giving us knives, arrows, and the like.

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