 | Sir John Fortescue, Andrew Amos - 1825 - 304 pages
...substantial householder, commonly called, a Frankleyne ; all men of considerable estates : there are others who are called Freeholders, and many Yeomen of estates sufficient to make a substantial Jury, within the description before observed. There are several of those Yeomen in England who are able to... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1826 - 650 pages
...knight, an esquire, or some sub• stantial householder (paterfamilias), commonly called a frankleyn,* possessed of considerable estate ; besides others...freeholders, and many yeomen of estates sufficient to make a * By a frankleyn in this place me to add, that the prologue to his we are to understand what we call... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1835 - 386 pages
...knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder (paterfamilias), commonly called a frankleyn (1), possessed of considerable estate ; besides others...however, point out more particularly two causes which bad a very leading efficacy in the gradual development of our constilution ; first, the schemes of... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1840 - 396 pages
...knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder (paterfamilias), commonly called a frankleyn (1), possessed of considerable estate ; besides others...insubordination and resistance were modified by the prerogative of the early JNorman kings. 1 . At the epoch when William the Conqueror ascended the throne,... | |
 | 1841 - 496 pages
...substantial householder, commonly called a frankleyne ; all men of considerable estates ; there are others who are called freeholders, and many yeomen of estates sufficient to make a substantial jury. There are several of those yeomen in England who are able to dispend by the year a hundred pounds and... | |
 | George Ellis - 1845 - 382 pages
...substantial houscholder, commonly called a frankleyne ; all men of considerable estates : there are others who are called freeholders, and many yeomen...of estates sufficient to make a substantial jury." (Chap. XXIX.) This wealth he attributes principally to the enclosure of our pasture-lands. The same... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 pages
...knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder (paterfamilias), commonly called a frankleynt, possessed of considerable estate ; besides others...however, point out more particularly two causes which • Philip de Comines takes several op- had obtained the title by creation or some portunities of testifying... | |
 | 1846 - 612 pages
...you may not find a Knight, an Esquire, or some substantial householder commonly called a Frankleyn, possessed of considerable estate; besides others who...of estates sufficient to make a substantial Jury." The word Gent., as a title after the name, will not be found before about 1430,2 and was most probably... | |
 | Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue Baron Carlingford - 1846 - 80 pages
...you may not find a knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder, commonly called a Frankleyn, possessed of considerable estate ; besides others...freeholders, and many yeomen of estates sufficient to make a jury1." It cannot be attempted here to describe the later workings of those new forces introduced into... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1848 - 570 pages
...knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder (paterfamilias), commonly called a frankleyn,* possessed of considerable estate; besides others who...development of our constitution ; first, the schemes of continentul ambition in which our government was long engaged ; secondly, the manner in which feudal... | |
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... ranks flourished remarkably, not only in commercial towns, but among the cultivators of the soil. " There is scarce a small village," says Sir J. Fortescue, " in which you may not find a knight, an esquire, or some substantial householder, (paterfamilias,)... 
