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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. 1908. Excerpt: ... 146 INDEX. Aids, regulated by the Great Charter, 101-102, 127, 141, 142; see Auxilium. Alodium, 52. Anglo-Saxon and Norman institutions, divergences between, 66. Armies, Anglo-Saxon, 58; Norman, 59sqq. Articuli Baronum, 117, 118, 143. Auxilium burgorum, 98, 102, 153. Barons, the, their origin, 53-4; meaning of the word in the 11th century, 61 note 1; the barons and the Great Charter, 129 sqq. Barony, nature of a, 63. Bede, alleged allusion to Folkland by, 33. Bookland, 31. Borough, employment of the word, 71; impossibility of denning it exactly, 68 sqq. Boroughs, the heterogenous, 79; the homogeneous, 80; "garrison theory" of origin of heterogeneous, 78. Breteuil, influence of customs of, in England, 88. Britons, see Celts. Bruges, a typical castle-formed town, 77 note 1. Burgage, tenure in, 58, 70. Burgenses, 79, 80, 81. Burh-bot, 80. Burh-geat-setl, 39 sqq. Burhs, meaning of the term, 70, 74, 75, 77-8. Cambray, example of conspiratio, 94-5. Carucage, 141. Castles, origin of certain towns, 76. Celts, Celtic elements in the origins of the manor, 10 sqq. Ceorl, 7, 14, 24. Charter of Liberties, the alleged Unknown, 116. Charter, the Great, an appeal to Civil War, 144; compared with the Unknown Charter, 123 sqq.; confirmations of, text of the, 142; interpretation of the, 127; its reactionary character, 129; its "sentimental force," 128; description of, in "Histoire des dues de Normandie," 131 sqq.; unmentioned by biographer of William the Marshal, 134; described by Wendover, Coggeshall, Barnwell, 134-5; new light on, 131; reaction in modern criticism of, 128; reasons of its constitutional importance, 144. Cinque Ports, 86-7. Civil War, appeal to, in the Great Charter, 144. Civitas, meaning of the word in the Middle Ages, 70 and note 4. Clergy, clauses concer...
