The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York: Comprehending an Historical and Descriptive View of the Ancient and Present State of Each Parish Within the Wapontake of Langbargh; the Soil, Produce, and Natural Curiosities; with the Origin and Genealogy of the Principal Families Within the District

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F. Jollie and sons, 1808 - 486 páginas

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Página 27 - Such was the tenure by grand serjeanty, per magnum servitium, whereby the tenant was bound, instead of serving the king generally in his wars, to do some special honorary service to the king in person ; as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like ; or to be his butler, champion, or other officer at his coronation. It was in most other respects like knight-service ; only he was not bound to pay aid, or escuage, and, when tenant by knight-service paid five pounds for a relief...
Página 217 - To disperse our cares away. Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bow'r ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give to each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Página 135 - That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Página 462 - Having been absent from England three years and eighteen days, in which time, and under all changes of climate, I lost but four men, and only one of them by sickness...
Página 10 - His scarr'd and rudely-painted limbs around Fantastic horror-striking figures frown'd, Which, monster-like, ev'n to the confines ran Of nature's work, and left him hardly man. His knitted brows and rolling eyes impart A direful image of his ruthless heart; Where war and human bloodshed brooding lie, Like thunders lowering in a gloomy sky.
Página 25 - Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry out his dung, or other mean employments.
Página 28 - Cop. §. 52. of cuftoms that prevail in different manors, with regard both to the defcent of the eftates, and the privileges belonging to the tenants.
Página 28 - They could not leave their lord without his permission : but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or other chattels.
Página 26 - Secondly, where the service was not only free, but also certain, as by fealty only, by rent and fealty, &c., that tenure was called liberum socagium, or free socage. These were the only free holdings or tenements; the others were villenous or servile: as, thirdly, where the service was base in its nature, and uncertain as to time and quantity, the tenure was purum villenagium (absolute or pure villenage).

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