The Foundations of Society and the Land: A Review of the Social Systems of the Middle Ages in Britain, Their Growth and Their Decay: with a Special Reference to Land User, Supplemented by Some Observations on the Connection with Modern Conditions |
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... JAMES VI . AND I. . A Summary , 411. Plantation as a Commercial Adventure , 412. The Breach with Rome , 413. The Position of Elizabeth , 414. The Separation of West and East in Scot- land , 415. James I. , 417. James II . , James III ...
... JAMES VI . AND I. . A Summary , 411. Plantation as a Commercial Adventure , 412. The Breach with Rome , 413. The Position of Elizabeth , 414. The Separation of West and East in Scot- land , 415. James I. , 417. James II . , James III ...
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... James I. and VI . in 1609 , in the Statutes of Icolmkill , insist that the Highland chiefs should disband the men of their name and clan who were ready to fly to arms at the order of the chief . Similar provisions were made in 1715 and ...
... James I. and VI . in 1609 , in the Statutes of Icolmkill , insist that the Highland chiefs should disband the men of their name and clan who were ready to fly to arms at the order of the chief . Similar provisions were made in 1715 and ...
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... James I. , the Irish customary law was swept away and no provision was made for the poor , the old Irish , whether kindred or old people without children , were supported by the people themselves under the old custom until 1838 . The ...
... James I. , the Irish customary law was swept away and no provision was made for the poor , the old Irish , whether kindred or old people without children , were supported by the people themselves under the old custom until 1838 . The ...
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... James was trying to destroy the native population , as well as in many other parts . They would appear to have been wholly ignorant , in their Jacobean conceit , that it was founded on a wide and healthy blood relationship common to the ...
... James was trying to destroy the native population , as well as in many other parts . They would appear to have been wholly ignorant , in their Jacobean conceit , that it was founded on a wide and healthy blood relationship common to the ...
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... James fondly imagined it to be so , but was universal in early times . When all , or nearly all , payments were made in kind , this right of entertainment both as a right of the king and as a rent for land or as interest for a loan of ...
... James fondly imagined it to be so , but was universal in early times . When all , or nearly all , payments were made in kind , this right of entertainment both as a right of the king and as a rent for land or as interest for a loan of ...
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Page 423 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 11 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and...
Page 390 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 423 - Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty. And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty ; — Seb.
Page 404 - Wherein it is a great wonder to see the odds which is between the zeal of popish priests and the ministers of the Gospel. For they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling, hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people into the Church of Rome.
Page 423 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 422 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Page 253 - ... by your High Court of Parliament. They make " us believe, that by virtue of your Highness all our former " writings are void, and of no effect : and that if we will " not take new leases of them, we must then forthwith " avoid the grounds, as having therein no interest.
Page 390 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 275 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had...