Stewartiana, Containing the Case of Robert II and Elizabeth Mure, and Question of Legitimacy of Their Issue ...

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T.G. Stevenson, 1843 - Robert Ii, King of Scotland, 1316-1390 - 152 pages
 

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Page 129 - Reign of King Henry VIII. to the end of that of King James I. And in the House of Peers, from the accession of King James I. to this time. Printed for J. Roberts, price 6<i
Page 129 - it is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the...
Page 5 - Professor of Public Law and of the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh. New Edition, Revised and much Enlarged.
Page 91 - Gawano filio suo naturali et heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo legitime procreandis, quibus forte deficientibus...
Page 36 - I sal never presume til hafe actual delen wyt the said Elizabet, nether be slight nor myght, nor any other manner, on to the tyme it be sene to the said lord Nichol, and her other tender friends, that I may hafe the saide Elizabeth to my wife lauchfully, and this before thir witnesses...
Page 136 - ... et haeredes nostri praedicti, donationem et concessionem nostram de dictis decem marcis annuis percipiendis, ut supra, de annuo redditu supra-dicto, praedictis...
Page 46 - Which last-mentioned prince, being the farthest removed from the common stock, gives the denomination to the degree of kindred in the canon and municipal law. Though according to the computation of the civilians, (who count upwards, from either of the persons related, to the common stock, and then downwards again to the other; reckoning a degree for each person both ascending and descending...
Page 49 - And it is thought that immediately upon the arrival of the Dowager in Scotland, she will come again to fetch another. If she so do, here is like to be a combat, being the heartburning already very great. The old worn pelf,8 fearing thereby to lose some part of her credit, who presently reigneth alone, and governeth without empeasche.
Page 29 - ... and to apply for another, which accord' ingly followed, dated February 5th, 1428, in the name of Jordan, ' the Grand Papal Penitentiary, whereby he enjoins (under apo' stolic authority) Henry, Bishop of St. Andrews, to decern the ' preceding dispensation to be as valid ' ac si in eadem de distantia ' ' tertii gradus predicti mentio facta foret.
Page 45 - By the canon law (different from the civil) the degrees of for' bidden relationship were computed downwards, but in one line. ' A brother and sister were in the first degree — a cousin-german in 1 Regis.

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