Volume 1
A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts.
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![agreeing with that of Curiata : and the leges peculiares were genera], Jupii populi f regnante MagiftratuJ but not in force as laws, until their promulgation :■ for which caufe the country-tribunes repaired to certain faires, where proclamation was made of their new laws; and holding it aqitum nt quifquam non obligarctur ad id quod fine culpa fua, ignorat. But thefe freedoms of the people expired and vanilhed as the empire grew obfolete : and when the ftate declined, we (as other e n fra n chi fed countries) began to give laws unto ourfelves. Therefore the Britains told Auguftine, Sc non pope abfque fuorum Conferfu & liccntia prifcis abdicate moribus. And thus it flood in Britaine un¬ til the coming in of the Saxons. Now that fubftance and forme of parliamentary afTem- blies went all along the Saxon age, held during the incur- fion of the Danes, and was continued by the Conquerour in part : and when the affembly of the three eflates formed the parliament (as now we keep it) it (hall by clear proof and prefidents appear. The ffory of the Saxons and their jaws do (hew, that they were of the fame minde trans¬ planted hither, as Tacitus faith the Germanes were : Nec Regibus infnita potefias; de Minoribus Rebus principles consultant, de majoribus cinncs : Rex Edwinus, faith Beda, lib. 2. cap. i 3 quod anteqnam fidem fufciperit, dixit, fecum, amicis, principibus, eh Confiliariis fids collaturum. In a charter of king Etheidred it appeareth, quod ad fynodale Confilium a pud Cirenchefler iiniverfi Optimates fimul convenerunt, O' Ajfricum Majcftatem rerum ajfeSlantem, de hac patria profugum expulenint. Bertulphius held a councel at Knhbury (pro Regni Negctiis Congregat') to the which the Weft Saxon king and people fent their legate. Ingulphus hath many places of clear proof; but I will move but one : In fe/lo nativitatis beata Maria, cum uni- verfi Magnates Regni, per Regium edibhim fummoniti tam Jrcbiepfcopi, Epifcopi, Abbates, Cf Cleriei, quam totius Regni Proceres, eh Optimates London convenerunt, ad trac- tandum de negotiis publicis totius Regni; confummatis omni- j bus, Rex Eldredits, coram Univerfs, Domino TurketiRo, Abbati%](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30537885_0001_0380.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
