 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 526 pages
...fealty to his lord, he shall hold his right hand upon a book, and shall say thus : Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lauds which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1872 - 1602 pages
...a book, which he also kissed, after having pronounced the following words : — "Know you this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear/or the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and... | |
 | John Pagen White - 1873 - 368 pages
...to you, and faith to you will bear for the tenements which I claim to hold of you, and that I will lawfully do to you the customs and services which...the terms assigned ; so help me God and his Saints." But he was not to kneel, nor make such humble reverence as in homage ; and fealty might be done before... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 494 pages
...unto you, and faith to you will bear for the tenements which I claim to hold of you, and that I will lawfully do to you the customs and services which...the terms assigned. So help me God and His saints." But he was not to kneel nor make such humble reverence as in homage ; and fealty might be done before... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 510 pages
...unto you, and faith to you will bear for the tenements which I claim to hold of you, and that I will lawfully do to you the customs and services which...the terms assigned. So help me God and His saints." But he was not to kneel nor make such humble reverence as in homage ; and fealty might be done before... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1878 - 250 pages
...life shall do fealty, and yet he shall not do homage." I beg you to observe the terms of the oath: " I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do." This oath evidently implies that there Customs may be customs incident to the tenure of a freehold... | |
 | 1879 - 276 pages
...taken, the right hand upon a book, the baron standing, and repeating the words, " Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you,...the terms assigned, so help me God and his Saints." Homage was also rendered, the vassal kneeling, his head uncovered, his sword and spurs removed, his... | |
 | Thomas Donaldson - 1881 - 578 pages
...faithful and trne onto yon, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of yon, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I onght to do by the terms assigned. So help me God and his sainte. '" "The oath of foalty was tho parent... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pages
...a book, and shall say thus: Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, aud faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim...the terms assigned, so help me God and his saints; aud he shall kiss the book. But he shall not Uueel when he maketh the fealty, nor shall make such (that... | |
 | Martin Rule - 1883 - 464 pages
...holding his hand upon the book said, ' Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true to you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which...ought to do at the terms assigned. So help me God.' If the contracting parties were the sovereign and a subject the words ' of life and limb and of earthly... | |
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... know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the custom and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help... 
