An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same

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An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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At London :: Printed by th'assignee of Charles Yetsweirt Esq. deceased. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis,
1595.
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Law -- England -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10426.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2025.

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260 Hundred.

HVndreds, fueront de∣uise per Alfred le roy, apres que il ad deuide le entier Realme en certain parts ou sections, le quel de le Saxō parol Seynan, significant de seinder, il terme Shires ou (sicome nous vncoe pale) Shares & portiōs. Ceux Shires il auxy diuide en petites parts, de queux ascuns fu∣eront appelles Lthes, de le parol Ielapian, que est de assembler ensemble, auters Tythinges, issint nosme, pur ceo que la fu∣eront en chescū de eux al number de x. persons, de que chescun fuit suertie & pledge pur auts bone behauiour: auters hun∣dreds, pur ceo que ils cō∣teine iurisdiction sur vn 100 homes ou pledges demurrāt {per}aduenture en ij. ouiij. ou plus paroches, borowes, ou villes, este∣ant & adioynantes ment meines prochein ensem∣ble, en le quel il appoint administration de Iustice destre exercise seueral∣m̄t ēter eux de mesme le

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hundred, & nemy que lun irra hors disorderment en lauter hundred, lath, ou tything, en que il ne demurt. Ceux hundredes continue a cst iour en force, ment obstant non en tout al mesme le pur∣pose, pur que al primer ils fueront ordein, vncore a ore mult necessarie, & en temps de peace pur bone order de gouernement diuers voyes, & auxy en guerr pur certaintie de leuying de homes come auterm̄t pur le plus spedi collections de paiments grant en Parliamēt a les Roes & Roign̄s de cest Realme.

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