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A54688 Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1661 (1661) Wing P2010; ESTC R7943 37,109 71

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31_o h._n 3._o socage_n copyhold_n northern_a tenant-right_a lease-holders_n free_a socage_n beraultus_fw-la in_o commentar_n &_o spelmans_fw-mi glossar_n 261._o &_o in_o verb._n leta_fw-la 431._o trin._n 18._o e._n 1._o in_o placit_fw-la inter_fw-la abbatem_fw-la de_fw-la leicester_n &_o abbatem_fw-la de_fw-la selby_n escuage_z homage_n relief_n primer_n seisin_n livery_n mesne_fw-la race_n marriage_n rent_n licence_n to_o widow_n hold_v in_o capite_fw-la by_o knight_n service_n to_o marry_v to_o compound_v with_o copy-holders_n fine_n take_v by_o the_o court_n of_o ward_n upon_o the_o grant_n of_o land_n in_o minority_n bodin_n de_fw-fr repub_fw-la coke_n in_o praefat_fw-la 9_o relat._n instruction_n or_o direction_n of_o king_n james_n to_o be_v observe_v in_o the_o court_n of_o ward_n coke_n 1._o part_n institut_n 126._o fitz_n herbert_n n_o b._n 82._o 25._o e._n 3._o cap._n 11._o rot._n parl._n 20._o r._n 2._o n._n 27._o mat._n paris_n 240_o 241._o la_fw-fr noüe_fw-fr discourse_n 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