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[k]Gloss. in verb.
judicium Dei.
The author of the
Miroir des justices,
complains, that ordinances are only made by the king and his clerks, and by aliens and others, who dare not contradict the king, but study to please him. Whence, he concludes, laws are oftener dictated by will than founded on right.

[l]Dugd. Jurid. Orig. p. 26.

[m]Madox Hist. of Exch. p. 520.

[n]Char. Will. apud Wilkins, p. 230. Spel. Conc. vol. ii. p. 14.

[o]Spel. Gloss. in verb.
manus mortua.
We are not to imagine, as some have done, that the church possessed lands in this proportion, but only that they and their vassals enjoyed such a proportionable part of the landed property.

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[p]LL. Will. cap. 68.

[q]Spel. Gloss. in verb.
campus.
The last instance of these duels was in the 15th of Eliz. So long did that absurdity remain.

[r]In all legal single combats, it was part of the champion’s oath, that he carried not

about him any herb, spell, or inchantment, by which he might procure victory. Dugd.

Orig. Jurid. p. 82.

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    • I
      
    • THE BRITONS
      
    • THE ROMANS
      
    • THE BRITONS
      
    • THE SAXONS
      
    • THE HEPTARCHY
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF KENT
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF EAST-ANGLIA
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX
      
    • THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX
      
    • II
      
    • EGBERT
      
    • ETHELWOLF
      
    • ETHELBALD AND ETHELBERT
      
    • ETHERED
      
    • ALFRED
      
    • EDWARD THE ELDER
      
    • ATHELSTAN
      
    • EDMUND
      
    • EDRED
      
    • EDWY
      
    • EDGAR
      
    • EDWARD THE MARTYR
      
    • III
      
    • ETHELRED
      
    • EDMOND IRONSIDE
      
    • CANUTE
      
    • HAROLD HAREFOOT
      
    • HARDICANUTE
      
    • EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
      
    • HAROLD
      
      • APPENDIX I
        
    • THE ANGLO-SAXON GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS
      
      • IV
        
    • WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
      
      • V
        
    • WILLIAM RUFUS
      
      • VI
        
    • HENRY I
      
      • VII
        
    • STEPHEN
      
      • VIII
        
    • HENRY II
      
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    • HENRY II
      
      • X
        
    • RICHARD I
      
      • XI
        
    • JOHN
      
      • APPENDIX II
        
    • THE FEUDAL AND ANGLO-NORMAN GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS
      

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Table Of Contents

XII: Henry Iii

XIII: Edward I

XIV: Edward Ii

XV: Edward Iii

XVI: Edward Iii

XVII: Richard Ii

XVIII: Henry Iv

XIX: Henry V

XX: Henry Vi

XXI: Henry Vi

XXII: Edward Iv

XXIII: Edward V and Richard Iii

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XII

HENRY III

Settlement of the government — General pacification — Death of the Protector —

Some commotions — Hubert de Burgh displaced — The bishop of Winchester
minister — King’s partiality to foreigners — Grievances — Ecclesiastical grievances

— Earl of Cornwal elected king of the Romans — Discontent of the barons — Simon
de Mountfort earl of Leicester — Provisions of Oxford — Usurpation of the barons —

Prince Edward — Civil wars of the barons — Reference to the king of France —

Renewal of the civil wars — Battle of Lewes — House of commons — Battle of
Evesham and death of Leicester — Settlement of the government — Death — and
character of the king — Miscellaneous transactions of this reign
Most sciences, in proportion as they encrease and improve,

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invent methods by which they facilitate their reasonings; and employing general theorems, are enabled to comprehend in a few propositions a great number of inferences and conclusions. History also, being a collection of facts which are multiplying without end, is obliged to adopt such arts of abridgment, to retain the more material events, and to drop all the minute circumstances, which are only interesting during the time, or to the persons engaged in the transactions. This truth is no where more evident than with regard to the reign, upon which we are going to enter. What mortal could have the patience to write or read a long detail of such frivolous events as those with which it is filled, or attend to a tedious narrative which would follow, through a series of fifty-six years, the caprices and weaknesses of so mean a prince as Henry? The chief reason, why protestant writers have been so anxious to spread out the incidents of this reign, is in order to expose the rapacity, ambition, and artifices of the court of Rome, and to prove, that the great dignitaries of the catholic church, while they pretended to have nothing in view but the salvation of souls, had bent all their attention to the acquisition of riches, and were restrained by