The reverse or back-face of the English Janus to-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the common and statute-law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations, to the decease of King Henry II. set down and tackt together succinctly by way of narrative : designed, devoted and dedicated to the most illustrious the Earl of Salisbury / written in Latin by John Selden ... ; and rendred into English by Redman Westcot, Gent.

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Title: The reverse or back-face of the English Janus to-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the common and statute-law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations, to the decease of King Henry II. set down and tackt together succinctly by way of narrative : designed, devoted and dedicated to the most illustrious the Earl of Salisbury / written in Latin by John Selden ... ; and rendred into English by Redman Westcot, Gent.
Author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Basset, and Richard Chiswell,; MDCLXXXII [1682]
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Subject terms: Law -- England -- History and criticism.
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Pag. 2. lin. 23. Among the Celts and Gauls] Who are reckoned for one and the same people; as for instance, those Gauls, who removed into the Lesser Asia, mixing with the Greeks, were called Gallo-Graeci, but by the Greeks were styled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whence by contraction, I suppose 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

L. 41. Bellagines, that is, By-Laws.] From By, that is, a Village, Town or City, and Lagen, which in Gothish is a Law; so that it sig∣nifies such Laws, as Corporations are govern'd by. The Scots call them Burlaws, that is, Borough-Laws. So that Bellagines is put for Bil••∣gines or Burlagines. This kind of Laws obtains in Courts Leet and Courts Baron, and in other occasions, where the people of the place make their own Laws.