Magna Carta
(1215)
Commentary by Matthew Fiorillo, Wagner College
Glossary
- Advowson the right, in English ecclesiastical law, to nominate a person to fill a vacant benefice
- contenement property other than real estate necessary to maintaining one's present way of life
- evil Tolts excessive royal taxes
- Five Ports the confederation, established in 1155, of five towns in southeastern England located where the channel was narrowest, hence crossing to the Continent quickest
- Guyan old spelling of Guyenne, or Aquitaine
- Haberjects the materials from which chain mail was made
- incontinent person not under control; in this context, describing a woman not under the authority of a male relative or guardian
- Justicer person appointed to administer justice
- King Henry our Grandfather King Henry II of England
- Lay-fee debt owed to the Crown by a Crown tenant
- Lord Henry … King Henry our father King Henry III of England
- meer pure
- keep his Turn in the Hundred hold court in the county
- Viewmaking the process of gathering and inspecting the men in the Frankpledge
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