The king to all earls, barons, knights, and freeholders of the county of Sussex, greeting. We pray you, for the love of us, to assist us now in carrying our timber to Lewes, resting assured that we ask this not as a right, but as a favour... Lives of English Popular Leaders in the Middle Ages: Tyler, Ball, and Oldcastle - Page 135by Charles Edmund Maurice - 1875 - 281 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain. Record Commission - Finance, Public - 1835 - 296 pages
.... Diplomatic Language, freeholders of the county of Sussex, greeting. (continued.) We pray you, for love of us, to assist us now in carrying our timber...but as a favour ; nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice. And so act in this that we may have cause to thank you.... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1849 - 386 pages
...the king, on July 14, is a striking instance of the difficulties of land-carriage in the Weald : " The king to all earls, barons, knights, and freeholders...but as a favour, nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice, and so act in this, that we may have cause to thank you.... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1849 - 416 pages
...the king, on July 14, is a striking instance of the difficulties of laud-carriage in the Weald : " The king to all earls, barons, knights, and freeholders...but as a favour, nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice, and so act in this, that we may have cause to thank you.... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1849 - 404 pages
...the king, on July 14, is a striking instance of the difficulties of land-carriage in the Weald : " The king to all earls, barons, knights, and freeholders...but as a favour, nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice, and so act in this, that we may have cause to thank you.... | |
| Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1870 - 298 pages
...Carriage of Timber to Lewes. In the rolls of the reign of King John occurs the following request : — " The King to all Earls, Barons, Knights, and Freeholders...of the County of Sussex, greeting. We pray you, for love of us, to assist us now in carrying our timber to Lewes ; resting assured that we ask this, not... | |
| Robert Furley - Kent (England) - 1871 - 496 pages
...Sussex to assist him in removing the Royal timber from the Weald as a favour, and not as a right : — "The King, to all earls, barons, knights, and freeholders...but as a favour, nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice, and so act in this .that we may have cause to thank you.... | |
| Robert Furley - Kent (England) - 1871 - 498 pages
...and freeholders of the county of Sussex greeting. AVe pray you for the love of us to assist us now ia carrying our timber to Lewes, resting assured that...but as a favour, nor is it our will that the same be turned into a custom to your prejudice, and so act in this that we may have canse lo thank you.... | |
| Charles Fleet - 1883 - 338 pages
...addressed by him in this year to the earls, barons, knights, and freeholders of Sussex, praying them, " for the love of us," to assist us now in carrying our timber to Lewes, " not as a right, but as a favour," is the earliest testimony to the difficulties of land-carriage... | |
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