A dictionary of the Norman or Old French language. Collected from such acts of Parliament, Parliament rolls, journals, acts of state, records, law books, antient historians, and manuscripts as relate to this nation... To which are added the laws of William the Conqueror. With notes and references / By Robert Kelham.

  • Robert Kelham
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dictionary of the Norman or Old French language. Collected from such acts of Parliament, Parliament rolls, journals, acts of state, records, law books, antient historians, and manuscripts as relate to this nation... To which are added the laws of William the Conqueror. With notes and references / By Robert Kelham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, “ TO THE LAWS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. HE Laws of William I. having at various Times engaged Men of very great Learning and Abilities in different Countries, in tranflating them into foreign Languages; ] hope I need not apologize ' for endeavouring to give a more perfect ‘T’ranflation of them into our own Tongue, than has yet been. done. The great Saige ch in his Notes ‘on Eadmer, was the firft who attempted to render thefe Laws into Latin 5 but he left many Parts of them (on account of the Rudenefs of the Norman Tongue) untranflated. . as he foundthem. ‘The very learned Ducange, at the Inftance of Gabriel Gerberon, of the Benediétine Or- der, who publifhed the Works of Saint Anfelm, tranf- lated the whole of thefe Laws into. the fame Lan- guage, which Tranflation is added at ‘the End of - Gerberon’s Edition. Dr. Wilkins, in his Code of anti- ent Laws, amongft which he has inferted thefe of William, has likewife tranflated them into Latin, neither intirely adopting the Verfion of Selden or Ducange; but frequeatly varying from both. a2 Mont,