The bailiff was to be chosen every year in the Moot Hall and to be assisted by fourteen principal burgesses and a recorder.
And is to mene to men That on this moolde lyven, Who so wole be pure parfit Moot possession forsake, Or selle it, as seith the Book, And the silver dele To beggeris that goon and begge 7120 And bidden good for Goddes love.
Wo was hym marked {239} That wade mootwith the lewed!
Do-best is above bothe, 5180 A bisshopes peere; That he bit moot be do, He ruleth hem alle.
For er I have breed of mele, Oft moot I swete; And er the commune have corn y-nough, Many a cold morwenyng.
In course of centuries of change it has fallen from its high estate, for it was once the capital of North Tynedale, and a session of the Scottish Courts was held on its Moot Hill when Alexander III.
It is a moot question whether this method of obtaining money for the building of homes is more or less economical than that of obtaining it from the ordinary savings banks or from other sources.
The great dogma of the blessed eucharist was fully laid down; the real dignity of the Christian altar and sacrifice was vindicated; and the moot question of communion under one or two kinds settled both in theory and practice.
This he not only failed to do, but, out of regard to his sovereign, he promised in writing that he would never again moot the question, and that he would oppose its being agitated to the day of his death.
But the matters referred to in that correspondence are insignificant compared with the taking in public an active part on either side of such moot questions as I have referred to.
You refer to the matter in which Mr. Smith was regarded as over-active as a moot question.
Whether men should be required to observe the law of the land, or be punished for violating it, is, we submit, not a moot question.
No, my serious offence was, as Mr. Tait states, 'the taking in public an active part on either side of such moot questions as I have referred to.
It is a very moot point whether they should be termed fast or medium—let us say they are fast-medium.
It is a moot point as to whether a slip should be stationary or occasionally on the move, in order to anticipate a stroke.
His purpos was for to bistowe hir hye (61) In-to som worthy blood of auncetrye; For holy chirches good moot been despended On holy chirches blood, that is descended.
Though Mars shal helpe his knight, yet nathelees Bitwixe yow ther moot be som tyme pees, Al be ye noght of o complexioun, 2475 That causeth al day swich divisioun.
And whan a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne, 1320 Though in this world he have care and wo: With-outen doute it may stonden so.
He moot been in servage of alle vyces, for it is the develes hord ther he hydeth him and resteth.
And of the tempest at hir hoom-cominge; But al that thing I moot as now forbere.
Wellesley's house and theMoot Hall, to the Mayor's Parlour--that evening?
The panelling is divided, on each wall of the chamber, into seven compartments; the fourth compartment on the outer wall slides back, and gives access to a passage cut through the arch across St. Lawrence Lane and so to the Moot Hall.
Suppose, too, that that person was well acquainted with the geography of St. Lawrence Lane and the Moot Hall?
Bunning tells me that he himself was standing outside the iron gates at the entrance to the Moot Hall from the time the Mayor entered until you came.
Now, about the middle of the last year that I spent in this town, I began to be very puzzled about the connecting wall between St. Lawrence tower and the Moot Hall.
Wellesley's house to the Mayor's Parlour in the Moot Hall?
Is there a staircase, then, in that lobby--I mean, by which you can get to the upper rooms in the Moot Hall?
He was closely following the Borough Surveyor as that worthy pointed out on his plans and diagrams the means of communication between the Moot Hall and the old dwelling-place at its side.
When Mrs. Mallett went by the private door between your drawing-room and the Moot Hall to see the Mayor, what did you do?
Whether this was a masterpiece of policy calculated to discourage lawsuits, or whether it was merely due to Spanish incuriousness and maladministration, is a moot point.
Not only did they "moot every question as" the arguments proceeded in court, but by "familiar conferences at our lodgings often come to a very quick, and .
This practice of Judge Marshall, of travelling out of his case to prescribe what the law would be in a moot case not before the court, is very irregular and censurable.
And it is a moot point whether or not a large proportion of the instances which are tabulated in most heraldic works as examples of marks of bastardy are anything whatever of the kind.
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
They crossed the Market-Place in silence, but as they turned the corner of the Moot Hall, the elder man spoke, touching his companion's shoulder with a confidential gesture.
But on this occasion Neale did not stare admiringly at the old church, nor at the pilastered Moot Hall, nor at the toppling gables: his eyes were fixed on something else, something unusual.
And go to the cab-stand at the corner of the Moot Hall, and just find out if she's taken a taxi from them, and if so, where she wanted to be driven to.
The moot or meeting of the people of a village or hamlet began in Anglo-Saxon times, when such assemblies were held in the open air.
The sounding horn had been used from primitive times to call together the people, and the gatherings of the folk mote were heralded in and assembled by a loud blast on the "moot horn.
Later came the moot hall, which preceded the guildhall of days when traders and merchants were incorporated into fraternal guilds.
The prime mover was undoubtedly De Persigny, and it is a very moot question whether, but for him, it would have been conceived at all.
Passe we over until eft; That wil not be, moot nede be left; Our first matere is good to kepe.
The helthe of lovers moot be founde 1965 Wher-as they token firste hir wounde.
And who-so askith folily, He moot be warned hastily; And I ne wot what I may say, 2605 I am so fer out of the way; For I wolde have ful gret lyking And ful gret Ioye of lasse thing.
The mayster-hunte anoon, fot-hoot, 375 With a gret horne blew three moot At the uncoupling of his houndes.
All I ask is, that your grace will not moot the question; for one word of the great Wolsey throws more weight into one or other of the scales of justice than all the favour of a dozen kings.
Sir Payan was too wise to moot the question; and Lord Fitzbernard, hiding his indigence in a far part of Wales, had neither the means nor opportunity of succeeding in a suit against him.
The top of theMoot Hall and other coigns of vantage had all been occupied by the Germans.
Some light was thrown on the moot point presently by the observations of Brandes and Benzenberg, which tended to show that falling-stars travel at an actual speed of from fifteen to ninety miles a second.
It was said that they even influenced the judgment of the Supreme Court, and that a question, connected with the taxation of costs, was sent to The Moot by the chief justice expressly for their opinion.
It is a moot question which is the more fatally fascinating: the uniformed nurse or the weeded widow.
It is a moot point whether imprisonment for debt might not with advantage be abolished altogether.
It was a moot point between Miss Anstruther and her noble kinsman whether she had any right to retain these things.
Nearly opposite the Moot Hall was the Bell Inn, the principal inn in the town.
In the centre was the Moot Hall, a quaint little building, supported on oak pillars, and in the shelter underneath the farmers assembled on market day.
All round the Moot Hall, and extending far up and down the street, were cattle-pens and sheep-pens, which were never removed.
