A Topographical History of the County of Leicester: The Ancient Part Compiled from Parlimentary and Other Documents, and the Modern from Actual Survey: Being the First of a Series of the Counties of England and Wales, on the Same Plan

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˹éÒ ix - ... was appointed to preside. Every man was punished as an outlaw, who did not register himself in some tithing. And no man could change his habitation without a warrant or certificate from the borsholder of the tithing to which he formerly belonged.
˹éÒ xii - ... to accommodate their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships ; and, in order to have divine service regularly performed therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tithes to the maintenance of the one officiating minister, instead of leaving them at liberty to distribute them among the clergy of the diocese in general ; and this tract of land, the tithes whereof were so appropriated, formed a distinct parish.
˹éÒ 25 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
˹éÒ xii - Which will well enough account for the frequent intermixture of parishes one with another. For if a lord had a parcel of land detached from the main of his estate, but not sufficient to form a parish of itself, it was natural for him to endow his newly erected church with the tithes of those disjointed lands ; especially if no church was then built in any lordship adjoining to those out-lying parcels.
˹éÒ xxxii - Vennones kept their quarters ; and at the distance of one mile from hence, Claudius, a certain commander of a cohort, seems to have had a camp towards the street, and towards the fosse a tomb.
˹éÒ x - The borsholder summoned together his whole decennary to assist him in deciding any lesser difference which occurred among the members of this small community. In affairs of greater moment, in appeals from the decennary, or in controversies arising between members of different decennaries, the cause was brought before the hundred, which consisted of ten decennaries, or a hundred families of freemen, and which was regularly assembled once in four weeks for the deciding of causes.
˹éÒ x - Their method of decision deserves to be noted, as being the origin of juries; an institution admirable in itself, and the best calculated for the preservation of liberty and the administration of justice that ever was devised by the wit of man.
˹éÒ ix - That he might render the execution of justice strict and regular; he divided all England into counties; these counties he subdivided into hundreds; and, the hundreds into tithings. Every householder was answerable for the behaviour of his family and slaves, and even of his guests, if they lived above three days in his house.
˹éÒ xiii - Northumberland, and many other counties in England and Wales, by reason of the largeness of the parishes within the same, have not, nor cannot, reap the benefit of the Act of Elizabeth for the relief of the poor...
˹éÒ x - The next superior court to that of the hundred was the county court, which met twice a year, after Michaelmas and Easter, and consisted of the freeholders of the county, who possessed an equal vote )• in the decision of causes. The bishop presided in this court, together with the alderman ; and the proper object .of the court was the receiving of appeals from the hundreds and decennaries, and...

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