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Page 12
... given , weighed but eighteen shillings a piece ; whereas Fortescue , in his book , De laudibus Legum AngliƦ , says , that the rings given to Chief Justices and to the Chief Baron ought to weigh twenty shillings each . He added , that he ...
... given , weighed but eighteen shillings a piece ; whereas Fortescue , in his book , De laudibus Legum AngliƦ , says , that the rings given to Chief Justices and to the Chief Baron ought to weigh twenty shillings each . He added , that he ...
Page 127
... given of these proceedings , the following pleasing account of the return of these victims of tyranny , when the voice of an indignant people , roused to the redress of such intolerable cruelty , could no longer be suppressed . The ...
... given of these proceedings , the following pleasing account of the return of these victims of tyranny , when the voice of an indignant people , roused to the redress of such intolerable cruelty , could no longer be suppressed . The ...
Page 8
... given to the grant ; but , as that consent could not have been given by all personally , it must either have been given by persons representing , and competent to bind all , or the whole statement must be an auda . cious fiction ...
... given to the grant ; but , as that consent could not have been given by all personally , it must either have been given by persons representing , and competent to bind all , or the whole statement must be an auda . cious fiction ...
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