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Sida 4 - Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein.
Sida 31 - Cabal was popularly used as synonymous with Cabinet. But it happened by a whimsical coincidence that, in 1671, the Cabinet consisted of five persons the initial letters of whose names made up the word Cabal ; Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale. These ministers were therefore emphatically called the Cabal ; and they soon made that appellation so infamous that it has never since their time been used except as a term of reproach.
Sida 116 - Combining the two, and setting the comparative dearness of cloth against the cheapness of fuel and many other articles, we may perhaps consider any given sum under Henry III. and Edward I. as equivalent in general command over commodities to about twenty-four or twenty-five times their nominal value at present.
Sida 103 - the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England," the authority which the Pope had exercised being divided between the king and the archbishop of Canterbury.
Sida 17 - ... ie, the price at which every man was valued. It seems also to have been the fixed price at which cattle and other goods were received as currency, and to have been much higher than the market price, or ceapffild.
Sida 44 - CYNE-BOT, or CYNE-GILD.— The portion belonging to the nation of the mulct for slaying the king, the other portion or wir being due to his family.
Sida 54 - A certain portion of the produce of the land due by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter.
Sida 24 - ... kinsmen and servants, with a special undertaking to be faithful; partly in the surrender by land-owners of their estates to churches or powerful men, to be received back again and held by them as tenants for rent or service.
Sida 54 - Law, fignifies an Oath taken at the -admittance of every Tenant to be true to the Lord of whom he holdeth his Land.
Sida 23 - ... warrants shall be deemed contrary to this right, if the foundation of them be not previously supported by oath, and there be not in them a special designation of persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure: and that no person shall be exiled or molested in his person or effects, otherwise than by the judgment of his peers, or according to the law of the land.

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