In the best room of this inn, the three barons were already awaiting the Tyrolese, and chafing a little at their not having arrived first.
These, he made known to his loving countrymen by sundry homely proclamations, which were most exquisitely relished by the colonels, counts, and barons aforesaid, but taken in sober earnest by the people for whom they were intended.
Had it been the speech of the King's great barons and the bishops 'twere different.
The Barons of the Exchequer, { and Justices of both In the Painted Chamber { Benches.
The company at the table then sat down; and the barons of the Cinque Ports carried away the canopy as their fee.
The barons of the Cinque Ports took a second turn in the Hall, which, as it began with more formality, was attended with more laughter than the first.
The barons of the Cinque Ports were then marshalled, two to each pole; they then bore the canopy down the Hall by way of practice, according to a word of command.
And on the righth hand of the table at that boord sat the barons of the V.
How else did the barons of the Cinque Ports show their right to carry the canopy over the king, and to have a part of that canopy for their service?
Barons of the Exchequer, and Justices of both Benches.
When the barons were indulging themselves in the pleasures of the feast, Edwy retired to his domestic apartments, and in the company of Elgiva and her mother, laid aside his crown and regal state.
The first thing we observed on having entered the Hall, was the canopy which was to be borne over the King by the barons of the Cinque Ports.
Some of the greater barons lived in almost royal state, but the smaller gentry in a simplicity which in these days would be considered absolute hardship.
As for all those of our subjects who will not, of their own accord, swear to join the five-and-twenty barons in distraining and distressing us, we will issue orders to make them take the same oath as aforesaid.
All barons who have founded abbeys, which they hold by charter from the kings of England, or by ancient tenure, shall have the keeping of them, when vacant, as they ought to have.
Earls and barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, and after the degree of the offence.
After that we went to the Exchequer, where the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I made affidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by order of the Council of State, and this affidavit I gave to Mr. Stevens our lawyer.
Pepys marched in the procession immediately behind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque Ports.
Edred or Eldred brother to this Edmund succeeded next king of England: he not onelie receiued the homage of Irise then king of Scots, but also the homage of all the barons of Scotland.
The clergy could derive advantage from this immense surplus in no other way than by employing it, as the great barons employed the like surplus of their revenues, in the most profuse hospitality, and in the most extensive charity.
This Mondaye, the 22 of October, was the douagier deprived from her authoritie by commen consent of all lords and barons here present.
England, and was able to array the force of the southern country against the refractory barons of the northern.
See also, on the state of the barons under David II.
In 1377, 'the power of the baronshad been decidedly increasing since the days of Robert the First,' p.
A good deal of kindness had been shown to English prisoners by French residents at Fontainebleau, but there was no one with whom the Barons could contentedly leave Roy.
Such friends as the Barons had made were among the English détenus, and these, like themselves, were ordered to Verdun.
It was Neuhaus, once a fortress of the rigid old barons of Tuvers.
The barons not only fought, squabbled and feasted, but prayed too in their fashion; so we came upon the chapel, disfigured by barbaric effigies, tawdry ornamentation and flimsy modern artificial flowers.
The inmates were not then barons of Tuvers proper, for the title having early become extinct the castle passed into many noble hands, sometimes reaching those of royalty.
The long and fierce struggle between the Crown and the Barons had terminated.
When war dismays my barons bold, 'tis time for war to cease; When Heaven forsakes my pious monks, the will of Heaven is peace.
The barons groaned, the shavelings wept, while near and nearer drew, As death-birds round their scented feast, the raven flags of Rou.
I tell thee, that if all the priests in Christendom, and all the barons in France, stood between me and my bride, I would hew my way through the midst.
To Charles the king, the mitred monks, the mailed barons flew, While, shaking earth, behind them strode the thunder march of Rou.
The barons exercised the most despotic authority over their vassals, and every scheme of public utility was rendered impracticable by their continual petty wars with each other; to which they led their dependents as dogs to the chase.
Twelve youthful barons own'd the foul report, The charge at first, perhaps, a tale of sport.
The princes were engaged in private warfare, and a large number of robber barons plied their trade and made the roads unsafe.
It was decided by all the princes and barons who were present that the count palatine of the Rhine has, and has had from of old, the right to act as judge in cases where the emperor or king accuses a prince of the empire.
Innocent III Rebukes the English Barons for Resisting King John of England, 1216.
If one of our knights or barons or other tenants-in-chief [i.
Innocent III Commands the English Baronsto pay their Accustomed Scutage to King John, 1206.
The Barons invite Louis of France to aid them (1215).
The manors held by the greater barons had a third court, the "court leet," which dealt with criminal cases, and could inflict the death penalty.
During the twenty-one years of William the Conqueror's reign, the Norman barons on the Continent had constantly tried to break loose from his restraining power.
To distinguish them from the original barons by land tenure, they were called "barons by writ" (S263).
Many of the barons now gave Stephen their support.
The barons broke this oath in the next reign (S130), but the moral obligation to keep it still remained binding.
By his quarrel with the barons he was forced to grant England the Great Charter.
But, according to feudal usage, the King was dependent on these verybarons for his cavalry,-- his chief armed force.
Provision for carrying out the charter by the barons in case the King fails in the performance of his agreement.
When in 1215 the barons forced King John to grant that memorable document they found it expedient to protect the rights of every class of the population.
Finally, the indignation of the nobles rose to such a pitch that at a council held at Westminster the government was virtually taken from the King's hands and vested in a body of barons and bishops.
The rest of his ignominious reign was spent in war against the barons and Prince Louis of France.
Foreseeing a renewal of the contest with the barons (S130), he issued a Charter of Liberties on his accession, by which he bound himself to reform the abuses which had been practiced by his brother William Rufus.
John foolishly set out for the Continent, to fight the French at the same time that the English barons were preparing to bring him to terms.
During this time the barons were daily growing more mutinous and defiant, saying that they would rather die than be ruined by the "Romans," as they called the papal power.
So also among the Normans we find the barons originally amusing one another with "gabs," i.
First came the gentlemen in waiting; then the knights in their places; the barons and earls in their degree.
Many peers were raised to higher rank, and numbers of knights were created barons in honor of the occasion.
The Barons at Runnymede had forced King John, the last English Duke of Normandy and Anjou, to grant them the Great Charter--the glory and pride of all English-speaking people.
Thus did God will; lest if those barons fierce Returned, fair England should be quite undone.
Had he lived in feudal times other barons would have said, "Where Malone sits there is the head of the table," and the monarch himself would have taken thought before provoking his wrath.
These two greatest of America's money barons ignored the gesture with which the younger Warwick invited them to be seated.
The august over-lord of all the robber barons regards our reign as tributary to his own.
The Barons of Exchequer in 1826 took possession of the ruins, had the rubbish cleared away, and what remained of the great building strengthened.
It was in the chapter-house at Melrose that the Yorkshire barons united against King John and swore fealty to Alexander II.
Look also how my Lord of Clare, coming to claim his undue 'debt' in the Court of Witham, with barons and apparatus, gets a Roland for his Oliver!
His anger was not diminished when the barons followed up the blow by a peremptory demand that the ordinances for the better government of England and the rectification of flagrant abuses should be carried into effect.
Louis established his kingdom on a legitimate basis; in which the barons wrung the Magna Charta from king John; in which the great religious orders of S.
The king, however, forced the passage of the river, and the barons retreated hastily to Pontefract.
The great barons attended with such a military force, that Edward was obliged to grant all their demands.
Footnote 127: Yet on great emergencies (says Sanut) the barons brought a voluntary aid; decentem comitivam militum juxta statum suum.
These four were the principal leaders of the French, the Normans, and the pilgrims of the British isles: but the list of the barons who were possessed of three or four towns would exceed, says a contemporary, the catalogue of the Trojan war.
The insurgents of Tephrice were represented by the barons and cities of Languedoc: Pope Innocent III.
I know thou art galled by our jesting, but we are all equal here in the greenwood, for there are no bishops nor barons nor earls among us, but only men, so thou must share our life with us while thou dost abide here.
Behind these were two of the higher brethren of Emmet, and behind these again two retainers belonging to the Bishop; for the Lord Bishop of Hereford strove to be as like the great barons as was in the power of one in holy orders.
Behind the knights came the barons and the nobles of the mid-country, in robes of silk and cloth of gold, with golden chains about their necks and jewels at their girdles.
With him were young Sir Henry of the Lea and two other knights and three barons of Nottinghamshire; but the King's mind still dwelled upon Robin Hood.
What would our old land barons have thought of a rancho four by six feet, which the first of our trade winds will blow into the bay?
Legislature by the throat and land barons refuse to divide their great holdings and give the small farmer a chance.
I have already sent to convene the knights and barons on whom the king can best depend, and must urge their instant departure for their halls, to raise men and meet the foe.
It will take some days for thebarons to arrive from their castles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aristocracy; best; brass; cream; elite; establishment; nobility
