Lexicographical Neighbors of Thegnly
Literary usage of Thegnly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England by Frederic William Maitland (1897)
"... there were lawmen of thegnly rank1; in Lincoln there were twelve lawmen'-1;
in Stamford there had been twelve, though at the date of Domesday Book there ..."
2. Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws by Henry Duff Traill (1894)
"... that if a ceorl killed a thegn, he had to die for it, or was sold into slavery,
for a thegnly wergild was quite beyond the reach of his modest means. ..."
3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1879)
"... of Herefordshire to " do thegnly and well." * The shire has become an aristocratic
commonwealth, ruled by an assembly not so very unlike what the ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"... of Herefordshire to "do thegnly and well."3 The shire has become an aristocratic
commonwealth, ruled by an assembly not so very •unlike what the ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"... of Herefordshire to "do thegnly and well." : The shire has become an aristocratic
commonwealth, ruled by an assembly not so very unlike what the ..."
6. A Sketch of English Legal History by Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague (1915)
"... but the work of attending the courts is discharged chiefly by men of substance,
men of thegnly rank2; the small folk are glad to stay at home. ..."
7. A Sketch of English Legal History by Frederic William Maitland, Francis Charles Montague (1915)
"... that if a ceorl killed a thegn, he had to die for it, or was sold into slavery,
for a thegnly wergild was quite beyond the reach of his modest means. ..."
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