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... chiefs , so that each chief on entering might take his seat under his own escutcheon . Orders were issued by sound of trumpet , and all the forms were charac- terized by great solemnity . What may have been the authority of this ...
... chiefs , so that each chief on entering might take his seat under his own escutcheon . Orders were issued by sound of trumpet , and all the forms were charac- terized by great solemnity . What may have been the authority of this ...
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... chief , but above all the other dignitaries of the state . From all this it will be seen that tanistry , in the Anglo- Norman sense , was not an original , essential element of the law of succession , but a condition that might be ...
... chief , but above all the other dignitaries of the state . From all this it will be seen that tanistry , in the Anglo- Norman sense , was not an original , essential element of the law of succession , but a condition that might be ...
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... chief judge of Ferach , the Fair and Just , at the close of the first century ; and , above all , Cormac , son of Art , who has left us a tract or book of " Royal Precepts , " and who , about the middle of the third century , caused the ...
... chief judge of Ferach , the Fair and Just , at the close of the first century ; and , above all , Cormac , son of Art , who has left us a tract or book of " Royal Precepts , " and who , about the middle of the third century , caused the ...
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... chief of the northern Hy - Nialls entered , in consequence , into an alliance with Amlaff , the Danish king of Dublin , and with his aid overran the territory of Meath . Three years later ( 860 ) the brave and magnani- mous Meloughlin ...
... chief of the northern Hy - Nialls entered , in consequence , into an alliance with Amlaff , the Danish king of Dublin , and with his aid overran the territory of Meath . Three years later ( 860 ) the brave and magnani- mous Meloughlin ...
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... chief of the Desmond sept of the Eoghanachts . To his horror the good prelate found himself all at once involved inextricably in war . The territory of his friend , Lorcan , king of Thomond , was threatened with invasion by the king of ...
... chief of the Desmond sept of the Eoghanachts . To his horror the good prelate found himself all at once involved inextricably in war . The territory of his friend , Lorcan , king of Thomond , was threatened with invasion by the king of ...
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