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A34782He demanded their reason, and what the matter was, being so much amazed at so suddaine an alteration?
A34782Is not that Common- wealth happy that must receive a reformation from such Saints?
A34782Lucas asked him, by what Law they were to dye, or whether by an Ordinance of Parliament, by the Councell of Warre, or by command of the Generall?
A34782and dangerous both to private and publick Interest, to leave the strongest holds of those parts?
A34782how many of your lives here have I saved in hot blood, and must now my self be most barbarously 〈 ◊ 〉 in cold?
A34782where the Queen was when he left her, and the like questions?
A60893''T is true, New lights, are now adays much cried up: but as in matters( mostly) of Religion; so( if you mark it) by whom?
A60893But admitting that( supposing it, I mean, a Sea- bred Creature) how then( will some say) should it possibly come there?
A60893But how possibly( will it be said) a Sea creature, when found at so remote a distance from the Sea?
A60893I answer, first, with as little wonder, as a Land creature should, which who with reason can imagine to have ever had at first so deep a burial?
A60893Piscis in arido?
A60893Whether the situation and condition, face and figure of the place may possibly admit of the Seas once insinuating it self thither?
A60893Whether( that possibility being granted, or evinced) the Sea did ever actually insinuate it self so far as to this place, and when?
A60893and at such a depth under ground too?
A608981657. if there had not been a public fund, and Treasurer appointed to collect and dispose the contributions of worthy men?
A608981?
A608982?
A60898Aedes S ● ● rilegae has audent sic temerare manus?
A60898And how few have been since conform''d to their example?
A60898But in such unhappy times, what can the Reader promise to himself, or what can I promise for the Author?
A60898But would you truly be informed of the cause of that?
A60898Caeruleo quoties me pictus daemon amictu Terruit?
A60898For how indeed can any works, but those of creation, be perfect, when they are first produc''d?
A60898Gavelkind- land in Kent were devisable or not?
A60898Had the inquisitive du Fresne been inform''d of all these papers, how much would he have augmented his immense work?
A60898How complete might this Glossary be made from our Author''s several exercises of this nature, which now remain in the Archives of Canterbury?
A60898How do most Historians betray a partial regard to their Nation, or their party?
A60898How many accidents of business, sickness, and mortality may intervene?
A60898How much will the knowledge of all our Laws and usages improve, when these mighty materials come at last to be digested by an able and patient hand?
A60898How oft do mens labours encrease upon their hands, till the undertaking prove above their strength?
A60898How oft do second thoughts correct the former: and when the scene is laid, it must be took away?
A60898How often are men weary of a warm resolution?
A60898How small a portion of our ancient tongue, like a few planks from a fatal shipwrack, has come into our hands?
A60898If of the Grecian, none but Herodotus, Thucidides, and Zenophon, how could Calepine and Stephanus have swell''d their volumes to so great a bulk?
A60898So as what wise man would enter into obligation, when it is such a hazard whether he shall be able to pay?
A60898Stonar then is but a contraction of Estanore, and that in sense and signification, what but the Eastern border, shore, or coast?
A60898What a slender stock of words can be drawn out of three or four small Tracts?
A60898Where shall we find that spirit to serve the Public?
A60898Whether Gavelkind be properly a tenure or custom?
A60898With what tedious application and gradual advances, did the great Camden conceive and nourish his fam''d Britannia?
A60898Would you see the first grant of it, with some other places to the Church?
A60898where that noble zeal for Books and Scholars?
A93553And if so, why then seek we any further after its original?
A93553And is it then to Custome or Prescription?
A93553And what doth r Bracton intimate lesse in his sicut de Gavelkynd, vel alibi ubi terra ● st partibbilis ratione terrae?
A93553But doth ● yn or kynd here intend and denote a mans issue, the Gavelkynders children?
A93553But what custome, I pray?
A93553But what( may it be ask''d) were they then which in some very ancient Records of that Cathedral are named Threnges?
A93553By the way, how do our Britains claim descent from the Trojans?
A93553De rerum permutatione) diverso jure censeri?
A93553Had there been a Custome for devising lands by will, what needed that notice to be taken here of the Act for avoiding uses of wills?
A93553I would ask then, if our Kentish Gavelkynd- land be partible quatenus Gavelkynd?
A93553In the mean time, said we not but now, that Custome is the thing whereto we ow this partition?
A93553Now''t is true, and not to be denied, that by these Laws of Canutus inheritances were partible; but how?
A93553Or how can this liberty& that etymologie consist?
A93553Qui hanc novitatem non admiretur, quod Dominus Archiepiscopus dicit nos debere de eo terras& possessiones nostras tenere?
A93553Shall I now give you one example from the Normans?
A93553We are here( me thinks) threatned with a Dilemma: for either the land was not partible, and why then called Gavelkynd?
A93553What say we then to Custome?
A93553What then?
A93553Whence then is it?
A93553Where''s the kynd, the parties issue here, to make good the derivation?
A93553Will you have an example?
A93553Will you have the common answer?
A93553Will you please to hear his reasons?
A93553b Should he not rather have said, Dominus ab hominibus suis?
A93553or is it from Gavelkynd that such partition there obteins?
A93553shall we admit kynd to signifie the issue, be it male or female?
A93553to any customable partition?
A93553to what original shall the name there be referred?
A93553what, I say, shall we resolve concerning the point of partition here?