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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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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    Command, wrote down with their own Hands the Return made by thefe Jurors. And to bring the Matter ftill nearer Home, In- gulphus, who was an Englifiman, who had ‘been Secretary to the Conqueror, and afterwards made by him Abbot of Crowland, has tranfmitted to Pofterity ” this Account of his Laws: ‘ I brought this Time ** with me(fays he) from London to my Monattery the Laws of the moft juft King Edward, which my Lord William, the renowned King of England, had proclaimed to be authentic, amd to be always ‘inviolably obferved through the moft grievous Pes “¢ nalties,; and commended them to his Juftices in the. «« fame Tongue they were fet forth, ieft through Ig- “© norance we or ours might happen to offend.” Ingul. Hitt. Seld. Ead. p. 172. Whelock’s Edit. of Lambard’s Archaion, 158, 159. Wilk. Leg. Saxon. 216, | i Having given an Account how the Laws ftood at the Entrance of Wiiliam 1; we will now lay before the Reader what Houard ‘has advanced in Oppo- fition thereto, and make fome Obfervations on thofe Paffages. | i His Affertions, amongft others to the like Effect, co thefe : - Guillaume le Conquerant defendit fes nouveaux Sujets de fuivre d’ autres Coutumes he eine jon pre- mier domaine. Dyifc. Prelim. p. 23. 3 William the Conqueror forbad his new Subjects to follow any other Cuftoms than thofe of Nor- mandy. Our Obfervation on this ts, that as William at . his Coronation {wore that he would govern by the Laws of Edward the Confeffor, confirmed thefe Laws by his Charter to the Citizens of London, and renew- ed this Oath afterwards at Berkhamfted; it can’ never be imagined that after fuch Solemnities all thefe Laws a rn &¢ Ca] n wy tal