Molinism takes its name from the Jesuit Luis de Molina, who published a famous treatise under the title Concordia Liberi Arbitrii cum Gratiae Donis at Lisbon, in 1588.
The classes follow each other in this way: 'Liberi tenentes, Molmen, Custumarii.
So too in the case of three 'liberi homines', commended to the Abbot in Norfolk.
In the above extracts we saw 'liberi homines qui vendere poterant' distinguished from 'Sochemanni', who could not sell.
Thus both those who were free to sell and those who were not, might belong to the class of 'liberi homines'.
Then, having spoken of wills, the praetor passes on to cases of intestacy, in which, firstly, he gives the possession of goods which is called unde liberi to family heirs and those who in his Edict are ranked as such.
Illustration: Domesday Surveys: Sochmanni andLiberi Homines; Servi; Boroarii and Cotarii; and Villani.
A glance at the map will show that throughout those [p087] counties of England most completely under Danish influence there were plenty of liberi homines and of the allied class of sochmanni, but nowhere else.
To include the total acreage under the plough, the holdings of the sochmanni and liberi homines of the Danish district must be added, and also the arable land (ploughed mainly by the villani) on the lord's demesne.
In the Domesday Survey for the greater part of England there is no mention of free tenants, whether 'liberi homines' or 'libere tenentes.
Domesday also gives a large number of liberi homines and sochemanni in Leicestershire.
However, they have the great consolation of being Page 238 maximi et clarissimi facti, nobis quae, qui interfecto rege liberinon sumus?
In the survey of the eastern counties he is separated from the liberi homines by the whole class of sochemanni.
Radknights who are liberi homines plough and harrow at the lord's court[185].
Still it is generally true that two of those five classes that seem to have been mentioned in King William's writ[239], the sochemanni and the liberi homines, are largely represented only in certain counties.
It is not to be imagined for one moment that the numerous liberi homines who even in the Conqueror's reign held land in Essex and East Anglia had books.
In Essex we may see the liberi homines disappearing[229].
All those numerous sokemen of the eastern counties whom Domesday ranks above the villani, all those numerous liberi homines whom it ranks above the sokemen, are, according to this scheme, villani if they be not thegns.
At the head of his personal adherents, and a large body of the “liberi firmarii,” or free yeomanry of Scotland, Wallace retired indignantly towards the North.
Another useful portion of society is to be found in our records under the name of liberi firmarii, or free yeomanry, the formation of which, it is presumed, may be attributed in a great measure to the ecclesiastical establishments.
They were plain freeholders holding in chief, and the liberihomines or libere tenentes of those writs which have been already quoted.
Charlemagne did not even alter the Longobardic laws, and he certainly did not interfere with the freedom and privileges of the Comacines or Liberi Muratori.
Whether these were of absolutely Oriental origin, or the result of some early emigration of the liberi muratori, archaeologists must judge.
The members generally were called Liberi muratori--Freemasons--because they were not subject to the sumptuary and other laws which regulated the work and pay of ordinary workmen.
The Italian term liberi muratori went into Germany with the Comacine Masters, who built Lombard buildings in many a German city, before Gothic ones were known; thence it passed Teutonized as Freimur into England.
This confirms the Italian chroniclists who relate that Pope Gregory sent several of the fraternity of Liberi muratori with St. Augustine, as, later, they followed St. Boniface into Germany.
The ceremony ended, the guests invited to the christening bent their steps to the house of the second godfather, who entertained them at a more formal banquet, the excellent wine of Liberi receiving much favor.
But the cure of Liberi was a man of a different stamp.
He flourished in the time of Boschini, who bestowed upon him andLiberi the precedency over all other Venetians of the age.
He was also an excellent architect, of whose talents the Cavalier Liberi availed himself in the erection of his fine palace at Venice, which appears to exceed the fortune of a painter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liberi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
