The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel (Volume 4) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to turne all this Ordinance vpon the State, and batter her selfe with her owne weapon : and this Law may bee some cause, we finde no popular insurrection before the Conquest. For had not this people bene bound with these Fetters, and an idle peace (but had liued loose, and in action) it is like they would haue done as nobly, and giuen as many, and as deepe wounds ere they lost their Country, as euer the Brittains did, either against the Romans, or the Saxons, their predecessours, or themselues had done against the Danes; a people farre more powerfull, and numerous then these. The Conquerour, without this, had not made it the worke of one day, nor had Normandy euer bin able to haue yeelded those multitudes for supplies, that many battailes must haue had. Alteration of the Gouernment.--But now. First, the executing this Law. Secondly, dis-weaponing the Commons. Thirdly, preuenting their night-meetings with a heauy penalty, that euery man at the day closing, should couer his fire, and depart to his rest. Fourthly, erecting diners Fortresses in fit parts of the Kingdome. Fifthly, collating al offices, both of command and iudicature, on those who were his; made his domination such as he would haue it. And where before the Bishop and the Alderman were the absolute Iudges to determine all businesse in euery Shiere, and the Bishop in many cases shared in the benifits of the Mulcts with the King, now he confined the Clergy, within the Prouince of their own Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, to deale onely in busines concerning rule of soules, according to the Cannons, and Lawes Episcopall. The order of deciding controuersies in the Saxons time.-- New orders instituted by the Normans.--And whereas the causes of the Kingdome were before determined in euery Shire, and by a Law o...

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