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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Great charter (search)
XX. A freeman shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great crime, according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise; and a villein shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he falls under our mercy; and none of the aforesaid amerciaments shall be assessed but by the oath of honest men in the neighbourhood. XXI. Earls and barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, and according to the degree of the offence. XXII. No ecclesiastical person shall be amerced for his lay-tenement, but according to the proportion of the others aforesaid, and not according to the value of his ecclesiastical benefice. XXIII. Neither a town nor any tenant shall be distrained to make bridges or banks, unless that anciently and of right they are bound to do it. No river for the future shall be imbanked but what was imba
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Petition of right, the (search)
King, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, that whereas it is declared and enacted by a statute made in the time of the reign of King Edward the First, commonly called, Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo, This is now held not to have been a statute. See Gardiner's Documents of the Puritan Revolution, page 1. that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his heirs in this realm, without the goodwill and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm; and by authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that from thenceforth no person shall be compelled to make any loans to the King against his will, because such loans were against reason and the franchise of the land; and by other laws of this realm it is provided, that none should be charged by any charge or imposition,
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
on, however, among the brave gentlemen who now swell the ranks of the South Carolina soldiery. We take it for granted that men of the highest social pretensions in the South will not be slow to volunteer in the ranks, as the highest nobles and gentlemen of England did on the apprehension of a French invasion. The ranks of the citizen soldiers, raised to defend England, are full to overflowing of the proudest aristocracy of the land, sometimes whole companies being mainly composed of Dukes, Earls and Barons. Moreover, in the organization of a Southern Army, we shall, if we are wise, adopt the system of France, the most military nation of the world, in which every soldier is considered a gentleman, and when off duty as much entitled to courteous recognition from his officer as if both were civilians; and in every case keep the door of promotion to the highest rank open to the humblest private.--Beginning right; enforcing the strictest military discipline, yet discarding the starched,
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Cumberland Gap. (search)
The late Lieut. Earle. --The reader with remember the remarkable suicide of Lieut. Earls at the Exchange Hotel, in An reporter at that time employed in this office, noticed the event, in the local department a paragraph in which it was stated that the act was occasioned by insanity, which was hereditary with the deceased. --This remark, so unnecessary and heedless, no view of the case justifiable, attracted the notice of Mr. Wm. E. Earle, a of Lieut. E., and he soon afterwards write to the editors denying the statement, and inquiring upon whose authority it was made, This letter, in the course of official business, was transferred to the local department without reaching the editors, and was not answered, whilst the cause of rather aggravated by a statement in the local column that Mr. Wm. E Halle Cortez that insanity was inherited by his relative. That gentleman has recently brau to the knowledge of the writer never mad the paragraph for the very objectionable statem
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battles of Port Republic. (search)
T J Dunn, co G, 34th N C; T R Gilbert, co E, 34th N C; T W Wilkins, co C, 19th Ga; A D Efford, co E, 40th Va; Sergt R Reed, 34th N C; Corp'l V Gordon, 55th Va; J H Philips, 44th Ga; Lt J T Bowhan, 55th Va, (sent corner 7th and Cary;) D P Elderson, 32d N C; Samuel Warren, 48th Ga; J C Coptin, 38th N C; J J Sacry, Purcell Battery; H T Smith, 44th Ga; J M Daster, 44th Ga; C T Armstrong, 38th N C; Corp'l J C Webb, 16th N C; M T Goode, 16th N C; Sergt N H Seisson, 55th Va; J M Scott, 44th Ga; J E Earls, 34th N C; A Francis, 1st N C; J S Hartness, 44th Ga; G Upchurch, 44th Ga; W Thompson, 44th Ga; J M Williams, 44th Ga; Sergt H B Brown, 38th N C; J H Grady, 1st N C; W H Purner, 19th N C; A Bass, 1st N C; H Withrow, 34th N C; C M Cook, 44th Ga; W H Butler, 44th Ga; Corp'l C L Carry, 22d N C; R H Gibson, 19th Ga; J H Johns, 5th Ala Bat; J W Hays, 40th N C; J B Jett, 40th Va; D Smith, 3d N C; J J Crammer, 44th Ga; 2 names unknown; Sergt A K Stem, 1st N C; A Rives, 44th Ga; Sergt F M Walker, 55
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
From the South. a brilliant scouting party under Captain Roddy, was sent from Tupelo a few days since, the result of which is thus officially reported: In Camp, August 8, 1862. General: Being joined by Captains Earls and Lewis, with their respective commands, we marched to the railroad, expecting to find a train of cars.--Upon arrival we found the train had unloaded two hundred and fifty Federals, who were to march to Decatur, We pursued them by a circuitous route, and came upon the head of their column soon after daylight. Waiting until the whole body had passed, we charged after them in the road, the advance being led by Lieut. Whistenant. We pursued them to within three miles of Decatur, capturing 123 men and one Lieutenant. Of the killed and wounded of the enemy I can give no account, since they were left scattered extensively on the road and in the adjacent cornfields. We captured 56 guns, which were divided equally among the command. We suffer
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
re. --Aristocracies the world will have, either of genuine gold or gilded copper; either of ancient birth, or of education, or of mushroom wealth. That to which we object is the hypocrisy which professes to hate all aristocracy, and is the most obsequious, servile, and soulless worshipper of aristocracy in all the world.--In this respect, as in many others, the people of the United States were the greatest humbugs in all Christendom.--Not in Europe itself can greater obsequiousness be found to rank and title. We are afraid that our own country is not entirely free from the disgraceful weakness. In the name of all that is manly and honest, let our institutions be either faithful outward signs of the inner man, or the inner man conform to the outward sign. If we hold in such ecstatic delight everything that savors of title, why not establish titles of our own — make Dukes, Earls, and Counts of some of our old families — and have the name as well as the thing that we so pine afte
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The discipline of General Earls Army — excellent Orders from the General Commanding. (search)
The discipline of General Earls Army — excellent Orders from the General Commanding. The disaster (if it may be called so,) of Cedar creek will eventually prove a blessing to the Army of the Valley. No more victories are to be thrown away by demoralized plunderers, and the organization of the army itself is to be so changed that the troops will be more compact and wieldy. Already several skeleton regiments and brigades have been consolidated, which cannot fail to prove an excellent step. The apple brandy question also receives some attention in the following orders, which are furnished us by our correspondent with General Early's army: Headquarters Valley District, October 25, 1864. General Orders, No. 44. I. Officers commanding divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions and companies, will at once take steps to improve the discipline of their commands, and for this purpose the following rules will be rigidly observed: 1st. No officer or soldier will be al
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Selling out. (search)
em around the Square, and see if they will suit. We have no doubt, if either of the European gentlemen should buy, we could make very good terms. We should have to give up nothing but African slavery and our own independence. As to the first, we may have to give it up any way; as to the last, what is the birthright of freedom, after all, compared to a mess of pottage? In return, we should get rid of Yankees, and have plenty to eat and drink. Some of us might have a chance to become Earls, or even Dukes — a great consolation to their posterity, who could exhibit patents of nobility almost as old as those of the aristocracy of Hayti. Poor, forlorn, deserted foundlings that we are, we still might like a choice of masters. We do not want to belong, if it can be helped, to that fat old gentleman with the broad-brimmed hat, the rosy gills, the double-chin, and the unwieldy periphery. Having been his property once, and felt compelled, under a sense of duty to our personal co