A seasonable treatise wherein is proved that King William (commonly call'd the Conqueror) did not get the imperial crown of England by the sword, but by the election and consent of the people to whom he swore to observe the original contract between king and people.
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Title
A seasonable treatise wherein is proved that King William (commonly call'd the Conqueror) did not get the imperial crown of England by the sword, but by the election and consent of the people to whom he swore to observe the original contract between king and people.
Author
Cooke, Edward, of the Middle Temple.
Publication
London :: Printed for J. Robinson ...,
1689.
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Subject terms
William -- I, -- King of England, 1027 or 8-1087.
Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087.
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"A seasonable treatise wherein is proved that King William (commonly call'd the Conqueror) did not get the imperial crown of England by the sword, but by the election and consent of the people to whom he swore to observe the original contract between king and people." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34407.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
Pages
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Come we now to his Second Son, William Rufus.
5. Willielmus Rex Anglorum, Wil∣lielmo Vicecomiti Filio Baldewini, & omnibus Baronibus suis & Ministris, qui habitant in Devonescira, Salutem. Notifico vobis, quod mea condonati∣one Ecclesia beati Olavi Regis, & Mar∣tyris à Monachis belli aedificata, in ho∣nore beati Nicholai, quam cum omni terra quae pertinet ad Ecclesiam supra∣scripti Martyris meo privilegio, vide∣licet Literis & Sigillo, liberam facio, & ita liberam & quietam per om••ia cum saca & soca, & thol & theam, & in∣fangenetheof, & warpeni, & murdro, & omnibus consuetudinibus, & operi∣bus & auxiliis, sicut Pater meus libe∣ram fecit Ecclesiam Sancti Martini de bello, ubi hostem devicit, & ubi Coro∣nam Regni haereditariam sibi bellando adquisivit. T. Walchelino Wintoni¦ensi Episcopo & Rogero Bigot apud Wintoniam.
Notes
Carta Regis Willielmi Rufi vide Monast. Anglican. Vol. 1. fol. 352.