| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 636 pages
...conßable, ae loon as he entered upon his office, appeared in a ful J on a certain day on horfeback with a pike in his hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances, and touched his pike ; which was a fign that they were firmly united to each... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 388 pages
...conftable, as foon as he entered Upon his office, appeared in a field on a certain day on horfeback with a pike in his hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lance;, and touched hit pike ; which was a fign that they were firmly united to each... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...now call a high constable, as soon as he entered upon his office, appeared in a field on a ceriain day on horseback with a pike in his hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances, and touched his pike ; which was a sign that they were firmly united to each... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...constable, as soon as he entered upon his offirt, appeared in a field on a certain day on hontback with a pike in his hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there uith their lances, and touched his pike ; which was a sign that they were firmly united to cacti... | |
| William Eastmead - Caves - 1824 - 536 pages
...constable, as soon as he entered upon his office, appeared in a field on a certain day on horseback, and all the chief men of the hundred, met him with their lances *nd touched his pikr, which was a sign that they were firmly united to each other; which was expressed... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 404 pages
...hundred, and whom we now call a high constable, as soon as he entered upon his office, appeared in a field on a certain day on horseback with a pike in...hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances, and touched his pike; which was a sign that they were firmly united to each... | |
| Sir William Mildmay - Election law - 1841 - 720 pages
...kingdom was divided into districts, he who was chief of the Wapentake or Hundred, and whom we now call a High Constable, as soon as he entered upon his office,...hand, and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances, and touched hit pike ; which wat a tign that they were firmly untied to each... | |
| 206 pages
...account is, that when the kingdom was divided into wapentakes, he who was the chief of the division, and whom we now call high constable, as soon as he...all the chief men of the Hundred met him with their lance?, who alighting, touched his pike with them, as a signal that they were firmly united to each... | |
| Charles John Longcroft - Bosmere (England : Hundred) - 1857 - 430 pages
...wapentake whom we now call the high constable, as soon as he entered upon his office, appeared in the field on horseback with a pike in his hand ; and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances and touched his pike, which was the sign that they were firmly united to each... | |
| Charles John Longcroft - 1857 - 430 pages
...wapentake whom we now call the high constable, as soon as he entered upon his office, appeared in the field on horseback with a pike in his hand ; and all the chief men of the hundred met him there with their lances and touched his pike, which was the sign that they were firmly united to each... | |
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