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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... INDEX AND GLOSSARY The figures in brackets mean that the subject in question is referred to so many times on the same page. Notices which are to be found by reference to the Table of Contents are not generally repeated in the Index. Abjuration of the realm, by recu-sants, &c, 90, 93, 106. Absolution, to be limited, 220: name objected to, 414, 416. Access, freedom of, 117,125: see also Speaker. Actuarius (a clerk in a court of law), 139. Admiral, powers of an, 163, 397; of Lord High--, 388, 453: Vice--, 165. Admiralty, Court of, 388, Admonition to Parliament, the, 198, 245 247-Adultery, punished by High Com-mission, 229, 407, 426; by the bishops, 375; by the Council of Wales, 383. Aids, feudal, limiiation of, 296: levy of, 355. Aldermen, their powers, 50, 104. Alehouses, see Inns. Allegiance, oath of, 259; to be ad-ministered, 258, 262, 266 (2), 273-275: proclamation of, 372, 373-Alms, 70, j 80, 187: --houses, 99, 101. Altars, to be removed, 190. Amercements (properly, a sum ex-acted Nfrom a person 'in the King's mercy'), assessed by a jury, 345: tee also Fines. Anchoragium (duty taken of ships for the use of a haven), 388. Apocrypha, not to be read in church, 414, 416. Apparitors (messengers in ecclesi-astical courts), complained of, 227, 301. Apprentices, regulations for, 45-54: children of paupers to be bound, 97, 98: of printers, 172 (2): ex-emptions for, 266. Archbishops, their powers in general, see Bishops: of Canterbury and York, see Canterbury, York: to approve marriages of bishops, 188: institution objected to, 196, 197, 199. Archdeacons, their duties, 19, 188, 201, 204, 209, 364: in convoca-tion, 190: objected to, 196, 197, 200, 220, 222. Aristotle, quoted, 182, 410. Arms, borne by esquires, 176: of recusants, 268, 319. Arraignment (placing a pri...
