Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester: The Creator of the House of Commons

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Trubner & Company, 1876 - Broj stranica: 239
 

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Stranica 150 - The Kyng of Alemaigne wende do ful wel, He saisede the mulne for a castel, With hare sharpe swerdes he grounde the stel, He wende that the sayles were mangonel To helpe Wyndesore, Richard, thah thou be ever, &c. The Kyng of Alemaigne gederede ys host, Makede him a castel of a mulne post, Wende with is prude, ant is muchele bost, Brohte from Alemayne mony sori gost To store Wyndesore.
Stranica 46 - June, 1241, the barons, knights, and citizens of the kingdom of Jerusalem petitioned Frederick II.
Stranica 211 - Provisions of 1259, thenceforth to be accepted as part of the legislation of the realm, inducing thereby the people, both high and low, to yield dutiful obedience to law. It is not improbable that the shires were represented by their chosen Knights. They and the Barons were courteously consulted, but no definite right of participation in State affairs, especially in questions of taxation, was conferred upon them. Except the demand for the appointment of the ministers and the election of sheriffs,...
Stranica 230 - ... inquiry. Perhaps in no European monarchy, except our own, was the form of government more interesting than in Aragon, as a fortunate temperament of law and justice with the royal authority.
Stranica 239 - E. ausi avums graunte pur nous e pur nos heyrs as Arcevesques, Evesques, Abbes, e Priours, e as autre gentz de seint eglise, e as Countes e Barouns, ea toute la communaute de la terre, qe mes pur nule busoigne tieu manere des aydes, mises, ne prises, de nostre Roiaume ne prendrums, fors ke par commun assent de tout le Roiaume, ea commun profist de meisme le Roiaume, sauve les auncienes aydes e prises, dues e acoustumees.
Stranica 126 - Coment hom le nome. II est apele de Monfort, II est el mond et si est fort, Si ad grant chevalerie ; Ce voir, et je m'acort, II eime dreit, et het le tort, Si avera la mestrie. El mond est vereement ; La ou la comun a ly concent, De la terre loee ; C'est ly quens de Leycestre, Que baut et joius se puet estre De cele renomee.
Stranica 160 - Linguisque duplicibus in errorem ducunt. vv- 533-55°Non omnis arctatio privat libertatem, Nee omnis districtio tollit potestatem. Ad quid vult libera lex reges arctari ? Ne possint adultera lege maculari. Et haec coarctatio non est servitutis, Sed est ampliatio regiae virtutis.
Stranica 198 - He died unconscious of the imperishable name which he acquired by an act which he probably considered as of very small importance, — the summoning a parliament, of which the lower house was composed, as it has ever since been formed, of knights of the shires, and members for cities and boroughs.
Stranica 23 - Justus, in militiae exercitiis sedulus, in suis actibus circumspectus, in incipiendis arduus, in perficiendis non defessus, totus divinis servitiis mancipatus.

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