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
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[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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    He funt Leges & Confuetu- dines quas \NiLLIEL- Mus Rex concefit unt- —verfo Populo Angle _ Ladem funt quas Ep- WARDUS Rex, cognatus ejus, obfervavit ante apres le» Conqueft de la Ice. les meifmes gue le Reis Epwarp fun Cofin “tint devant lui. . 1. De Afylorum® jure & immunitate Evclofiatica Cilicet; Pax Sanéte O eft a faveir; § Paisa Ecclefie. cujufcun- — Saint. Yelife; de que Forisfacturae quis ane forfait que home out reus fit hoc tempore; & fait encel tens; e il pout venire poteft ad- Sanctam venir a Sainte Yglife; out meee 2 TIS, 3 Grantut.—In the fourth year of his reigm b Congueft de la Terre.—According to Sir Mathew Hale, © Blackitone, and others, the word Congquett fignifies no more than Acquifition or Purchafe ; but according to Dr. Brady and-many more, it is taken in the fenfe Wilkins here underftands it, for ab- folute Conqueit. Fiale’s Hift. Law, p. 86. 2d Black. 48. 242. Brady. — ° Les meifmes.—They were trantflated from the Saxon by the ~ command of William, into the Norman Language, and then Cs confirmed by him; and there are not any ‘Laws which are _ wrote in the Norman Idiom of that Age extant befides thefe. ‘ But {till we muft remember, that hig a thefe Gallo-Nor- mannic Laws, as well as fome others in Latin of Edward the Confeffor, have been handed down to us; yet that we muff © confider them only as a manual of thofe Laws, and that the * greater partof the Laws of Edward are the immemorial Cuf- tom of the Realm.- Wilk. 219. Seld. 189. Hale’s Hitt. P. 86. ae . Sulivan’s Lect. p. 233. ant [See a further account of thefe Laws in the Preliminary Difcourfe.] © ae 4 : Eclefianys Bs