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Definition of Frankpledges
1. frankpledge [n] - See also: frankpledge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frankpledges
Literary usage of Frankpledges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1896)
"Four frankpledges from each of four vills : Rot. Hund. ii. 313. Sixteen frankpledges
from four vills : Roll 26, mem. 5. ..."
2. Lectures on Early English History by William Stubbs (1906)
"The frankpledges again were bound together in hundreds, and the hundred was
collectively responsible for the good behaviour of the ..."
3. Select Cases from the Coroner's Rolls, A.D. 1265-1413: With a Brief Account by Charles Gross (1896)
"In some of frankpledges from four vills: Roll 57, the rolls, not printed in this
volume, it is mem. 8. clearly stated that the presentments were " Pp. 82-85 ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1880)
"gives instances of both personal frankpledges and local tithings in the reign of
Henry III: the former from Kent and Warwickshire, the latter from Devon. ..."
5. The Mirror of Justices by Andrew Horne, William Joseph Whittaker, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"... if all free men of the hundred or fee are there present, if the frankpledges
have their dozens complete, and if all that they have are full. ..."
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