A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations.

Date:
1786
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Credit: A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuppofes it to have been a term defcriptive of a variable portion, enlarging in its extent according to the rank of the perfon. Such was certainly the cafe of what was called, with us, the Knight’s, Bakon’s, Earl’s, &c. Fee. In the inftance which occafions this note, the quantity of thefe Manses, and other circumftances, will furnifh a prefumption, if not a full proof, of its being ufed for the common Manse, containing the quantity already Hated. The tria jure debita, mentioned in the Charter of Henry II. may be conje&ured at leaft to import the three- fold indispensible obligation [/] of our Saxon Anceflors; from contributing to which no lands were exempt :—the repair of a Bridge ; the conjlruttion of a Castle for defence of the Coun- try ; and an expedition againft an Enemy within the territory. [f] Trinoda neceflitas-—Pontis reparatio, Arcis conftruftio, contra Hoftem profedtio. Vide Comment, on the Law of E. £. I. cb. vii. FINIS.