 | Martin Rule - 1883 - 466 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... | |
 | Martin Rule - 1883 - 472 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... | |
 | Martin Rule - 1883 - 464 pages
...tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the King, and shall lawfully do to you the customs and services...to do at the terms assigned. So help me God." And he shall kiss the book.' If, however, the oath of fealty was taken, but no homage made, the vassal... | |
 | Kenelm Edward Digby - 1884 - 466 pages
...doth 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,...claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you'the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and his Saints.... | |
 | James Kent - 1884 - 730 pages
...fealty to his lord, he shall lay his right hand *511 upon a book, and shall say, " Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to j'ou shall bear, for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1886 - 562 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,...ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and the saints: and he shall kiss the book.' Lit. Ten. s. 9i. The late Mr. Joshua Williams says (Williams... | |
 | James Kent - 1889 - 566 pages
...say, "Know ye this, my lord, that I shall he faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall hear, for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that...the terms assigned: so help me God and his saints." This oath of fealty everywhere followed the progress of the fendal system, and ereated all those interesting... | |
 | Kenelm Edward Digby, William Montagu Harrison - 1897 - 488 pages
...doth 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,...which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help mo God and his Saints. And he shall kiss the book. But he shall not kneel when he maketh his fealty,... | |
 | 1900 - 916 pages
...doth fealty to his lord, he shall lay his right hand upon a hook, and shall say, ' Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which 1 claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which 1 ought... | |
 | United States - 1900 - 372 pages
...doth fealty to his lord, he shall lay his right hand upon a book, and shall say, ' Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which 1 claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought... | |
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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... 
