The representation people had enjoyed in the shire and hundred moots had been a boon, not because it enabled a few privileged persons to attend, but because by their attendance the mass were enabled to stay away.
The cases were put" after the earlier repast, and twice or thrice a week moots were "brought in" after the later meal.
Their folk-moots were important, and the men held very tightly to any privileges which the town had, and were always on the look-out to secure fresh rights.
In the open places of the tuns and vills, where the folk-moots were held, Christianity was preached and the cross set up.
An army that can not be mobilized without the action of the hundred moots is not a handy force.
If moots were held in it, these would be comparable rather to meetings of shareholders than to sessions of a tribunal.
Then 'pressure was brought to bear in influential quarters,' and in favour of their own districts the witan in the moots jobbed and jerrymandered and rolled the friendly log, for all the world as if they had been mere modern politicians.
What is more, they will connect their claim to purely temporal justice with their possession of ordeal pits, and here we may see another link between the hundred-moots and the churches[995].
It is with a reverence such as is stirred by the sight of the head-waters of some mighty river that one looks back to these village-moots of Friesland or Sleswick.
In its village-moots lay our Parliament; in the gleeman of its village-feasts our Chaucer and our Shakspere; in the pirate-bark stealing from creek to creek our Drakes and our Nelsons.
It represented the whole English people, as the wise-moots of each kingdom represented the separate peoples of each; and its powers were as supreme in the wider field as theirs in the narrower.
Eadwine assembled such a meeting on the banks of the Derwent–for moots were always held in the open air at some sacred spot–and there the priests and thegns declared their willingness to accept the new religion.
At these last-named moots the kings were elected; and though the selection was practically confined to men of royal kin, the king nevertheless represented the free choice of the tribe.
Twici says, blow four moots for the taking of the deer.
The Master first blew four moots alone, then at the end of the four moots the others joined him in blowing, and they all continued keeping time together (see Appendix: Menee).
In this manner the old hundred-moots became neglected, people seeking for justice in the courts of the lords.
Where there was no lord they held a court which was composed in the same way as the hundred-moots outside.
The Inns of Court were spared; their moots and readings did no perceptible harm, if little perceptible good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
