 | Ann Radcliffe - Europe - 1795 - 522 pages
...men, excepting the king. Every mefne lord obeyed the fmnmons of the abbot, or his fteward, in raifing his quota of armed men, and every tenant of a whole tenement furnifhed a man and horfe of War for guarding the coaft, for the border-fervice, or any expedition... | |
 | William Green (of Ambleside.) - Lake District (England) - 1819 - 524 pages
...military establishment of Furness likewise depended on the Abbot. Every mesne lord and free homagef, as well as the customary tenants, took an oath of...furnished a man and horse of war for guarding the Antiquities of Furnessi 36 coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common enemy... | |
 | Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 pages
...consigned by grant of King Stephen to the disposal of the Lord Abbot. Every mesne lord and free homage, as well as the customary tenants, took an oath of...every tenant of a whole tenement, furnished a man and a horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common... | |
 | Marmaduke Tulket - Preston (England) - 1821 - 376 pages
...men, excepting the king. Every mesne lord obeyed the summons of the abbot, or his steward, in rajsing his quota of armed men ; and every tenant of a whole tenement, furnished a man and a horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 pages
...an oath of fealty to the abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the king. Every mense lord obeyed the summons of the abbot or his steward,...furnished a man and horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common enemy'of the king and kingdom.... | |
 | Lake District (England) - 1842 - 212 pages
...arraigned, for whatever crime, only by him. The military establishment of Furness likewise depended on the abbot. Every mesne lord and free homager, as well...every tenant of a whole tenement furnished a man and a horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border-service, or any expedition against the common... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 274 pages
...an oath of fealty to the abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the king. Every mense lord obeyed the summons of the abbot or his steward,...furnished '.' • a man and horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common enemy of the king and kingdom.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Lake District (England) - 1846 - 318 pages
...district of Furness. All the people were his vassals, and all the mesne lords did him homage and fealty, " to be true to him against all men excepting the king....guarding the coasts, for the border service, or for an expedition against the common enemy of the king and kingdom." The lordship of the abbot extended... | |
 | Sylvan (pseud.) - Lake District (England) - 1847 - 306 pages
...and all the mesne lords did them homage and fealty, "to be true to-them against all men, exceptingthe king." Every mesne lord obeyed the summons of the...whole tenement furnished a man and horse of war for giiarding the coasts, for the border service, or for an expedition against the common enemy of the... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1858 - 422 pages
...an oath of fealty to the abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the king. Every mense lord obeyed the summons of the abbot or his steward,...furnished a man and horse of war for guarding the coast, for the border service, or any expedition against the common enemy of the king and kingdom.... | |
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Every mesne lord and free homager, as well as the customary tenants, took an oath of fealty to the abbot, to be true to him against all men, excepting the king. Every mesne lord obeyed the summons of the abbot, or his steward, in raising his quota of... 
