ENGLISHRY (Englescherie)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V09,
Page 645
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ENGLISHRY (Englescherie)
, a legal name given, in the reign of See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
the Conqueror, to the presentment of the fact that a person slain was an Englishman
.
If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, unless it could be proved that he was English
.
Englishry, if established, excused the hundred
.
Dr W
.
Stubbs (Constitutional History, i
.
196) says that possibly similar measures were taken by See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
Canute
.
Englishry was abolished in 1340
.
See Select Cases from the Coroners' Rolls, 1265-1413, ed
.
C
.
Gross, Selden Society ( London, 1896)
.
End of Article: ENGLISHRY (Englescherie)
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