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Արդյունքներ 93–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... became predominant . Ecgberht , King of the West Saxons , not only added to his dominions the dependent kingdoms of Kent and Essex , but com- pelled the extensive states of Mercia and Northumbria to acknowledge his supremacy . Still the ...
... became predominant . Ecgberht , King of the West Saxons , not only added to his dominions the dependent kingdoms of Kent and Essex , but com- pelled the extensive states of Mercia and Northumbria to acknowledge his supremacy . Still the ...
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... became the general rule . Folkland . adopted based upon the existing divisions of the host into companies , each consisting of a hundred warriors united by the tie of kinship . The allotment of land made to each hundred warriors would ...
... became the general rule . Folkland . adopted based upon the existing divisions of the host into companies , each consisting of a hundred warriors united by the tie of kinship . The allotment of land made to each hundred warriors would ...
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... became hereditary in the old royal house ; but in all cases , down to the Norman . Conquest , the consent of the ... became almost entirely concentrated in the former , leaving to the latter , as his principal function , the command of ...
... became hereditary in the old royal house ; but in all cases , down to the Norman . Conquest , the consent of the ... became almost entirely concentrated in the former , leaving to the latter , as his principal function , the command of ...
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... became in its ecclesiastical aspect the parish of a single priest . Later on the hundred became the deanery , the shire the archdeaconry , while the whole consolidated kingdom formed the province of the Metropolitan.o Turning from the ...
... became in its ecclesiastical aspect the parish of a single priest . Later on the hundred became the deanery , the shire the archdeaconry , while the whole consolidated kingdom formed the province of the Metropolitan.o Turning from the ...
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... became the only avenue to distinguished rank . The word thegn itself came to be regarded as synonymous with noble or gentle . Among this nobility by service the highest rank comprised the king's thegns , whilst in a lower class were the ...
... became the only avenue to distinguished rank . The word thegn itself came to be regarded as synonymous with noble or gentle . Among this nobility by service the highest rank comprised the king's thegns , whilst in a lower class were the ...
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Էջ 571 - Princess during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them ; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in, and executed by, the said Prince of Orange...
Էջ 569 - That the commission for erecting the late court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Էջ 472 - ... or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Էջ 703 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Էջ 568 - And whereas the said late king James the Second having abdicated the government and the throne being thereby vacant, His Highness the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal and divers principal persons of the commons...
Էջ 569 - ... of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid; do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare: 1. That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the * 1689 (New Style). execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal.
Էջ 467 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm...
Էջ 568 - Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges, and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom.
Էջ 555 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm...
Էջ 568 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects.