The Welsh People: Chapters on Their Origins, History, Laws, Language, Literature, and CharacteristicsT.F. Unwin, 1906 - 678 sivua |
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Sivu 200 - Every seigniory or chiefry, with the portion of land which passed with it, went without partition to the tanist, who always came in by election or the strong hand, and not by descent, but all the inferior tenancies were partible between the males in gavelkind.
Sivu 250 - In the northern district of Britain, beyond the Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less.
Sivu 243 - This city was of undoubted antiquity, and handsomely built of masonry, with courses of bricks, by the Romans. Many vestiges of its former splendour may yet be seen; immense palaces formerly ornamented with gilded roofs, in imitation of Roman magnificence...
Sivu 176 - WALES; comprising Laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good ; modified by subsequent Regulations under the Native Princes, prior to the Conquest by Edward the First ; and anomalous Laws, consisting principally of Institutions which, by the Statute of Ruddlan, were admitted to continue in force. With an English Translation of the Welsh Text. To which are added, a few Latin Transcripts, containing Digests of the Welsh Laws, principally of the Dimetian Code. With Indices and Glossary. Edited by...
Sivu 383 - In 1839 a select committee was again appointed to inquire into the state of railway communication, and as a result of its recommendations a general "saving" clause was inserted in the Croydon railway bill. 22 In 1840 another select committee was appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into railway af1s CF Adams, Railroads, p.
Sivu 206 - The ecclesiastical law says that no son is to have the patrimony but the eldest born to the father by the married wife...
Sivu 196 - Six wellgrown trees, with suitable branches apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about the same size as the roof-tree, are stuck upright in the ground at even distances in two parallel rows — three in each row. Their extremities bending over make a Gothic arch, and crossing one another at the top each pair makes a fork, upon which the roof-tree is fixed. These trees supporting the roof-tree are called gavaels, forks, or columns? and they form the nave of the tribal house. Then,...
Sivu 217 - Saxons,' and the pound of 256 pence had ceased to be, we read (in language suited to the money of that day) ' three score pence is charged on each " trev " of the four that are in a maenol, and so subdivided into quarters in succession until each " erw " of the tydden be assessed ; ' therefore there is no erw in the tydden free from taxation.
Sivu 197 - There are fourteen persons who sit on chairs in the palace ; four of them in the lower portion, and ten in the upper portion. The first is the king ; he is to sit next the screen; next to him the canghellor; then the osb; then the edling; then the chief falconer ; the foot-holder on the side opposite to the king's dish ; and the mediciner, at the base of the pillar opposite to him, on the other side of the fire. Next to the other screen, the priest of the household to bless the food and chaunt the...
Sivu 348 - We have caused to be rehearsed before Us and the Nobles of our Realm the Laws and Customs of those parts hitherto in use, which being diligently heard and fully understood, We have, by the advice of the aforesaid Nobles, abolished certain of them, some thereof We have allowed, and some We have corrected; and We have likewise commanded certain others to be ordained and added thereto.