They had only to make presentments and to give testimony on oath when required to do so.
The juries made their presentments in respect of large masses of peasantry, under the preponderating influence of the gentry and without much chance for the verification of particular instances.
As a matter of fact, the village juries were independent enough to make their presentments more in accordance with custom than in accordance with the lord's interests.
Paid to the Churchwardens, which they laid out when they delivered their presentments to Sir Joseph Cradock.
While a system of Church discipline carried out bypresentments and excommunications was still, more or less effectually, in force, commutation of penance was very properly a matter for grave and careful consideration.
They may dispose of presentments of trespasses and nuisances, but not felony or question of freehold.
Such presentments are made by a set of at least twelve men, and the presented person is amerced there and then.
Lane, and the later presentments of him by photography.
All the foregoing presentments have reference to the township, and are those of 'the jurors of our lord the King (i.
Then come presentments of the homage of the Court of the Manor alone, describing the reliefs of freeholders and the fines, &c.
House of Commons, who went about with his camera to many of the places indicated, and by his art produced permanent presentments of the scenes which I had tried to describe.
It was a very large and lofty room in the pseudo-classic style, with a fine cornice, and hung round with family portraits so bleached with damp and neglect that they presented but dim and ghostly presentments of their originals.
For further details of Irish exactions see Ware's Antiquities, and Presentments of Irish Grand Juries in the Sixteenth Century, ed.
State Papers; Presentmentsof the County and City of Kilkenny, 1537, ed.
Presentments of Grievances, and see Ossory's own statements in 1534, Carew, vol.
In spite of their admitted imperfections, those presentments can alone be held indisputably to have been honestly designed to depict the poet's features.
But the success of his presentments of human life and character depended little on his manipulation of theatrical machinery.
And so we care little or nothing to-day for critical analyses or appreciations which are not creative presentments of the person.
These two, an angular and a curved form, like the everywhere recurring column and lintel of classic architecture, are but presentments of Yo and In (Illustration 18).
The writer of this book is of the opinion that one may very well understand Haeckel without being bound to consider everything else as nonsense which does not flow directly from Haeckel’s own presentments and premises.
Lancaster, and presentments made for killing and taking deer, and the like offences, but the penalties were not nearly so severe as formerly.
As soon as circumstances would permit, by an easy transition, and without disturbing existing arrangements, no further presentments would be made, and no new public works undertaken.
The conclusion is inevitable; the presentments allowed were utterly inadequate to meet the Famine in Mayo, the fearful consequences of which we shall learn as we proceed.
The presentments allowed would thus give about ten shillings' worth, of employment for each individual, with nine or ten foodless months before them.
Sometimes the presentments for the public works were very large--far beyond the entire rental of the barony; yet they may not have been too great to meet the starvation which the assembled ratepayers saw everywhere around them.
The deficiency of the present System exemplified in the effect of the presentments by Constables to the Grand Inquest.
This fact, coupled with the circumstance that they were themselves liable to be reported to the court and punished if they failed to indict, accounts for the cautious presentments made by these Elizabethan wardens.
Men were also great gossipers ("common talkers") in the churchyard, as a number of presentments show.
Compulsory presentments were, however, limited by law and custom to two courts a year.
The act-books teem with such presentments as the following: one Holaway refuses to give to the poor-box, "and is found able by the parish.
Presentments for not receiving are numerous in the act-books.
Numerous other presentmentsat visitations for failure to supply the requisites for worship besides those adduced in the text will be found in Hale, Crim.
The contrast between the graphic power displayed by Dickens in his delineation of the characters of Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen, and the indistinctiveness, as to profession, of his presentments of Allan Woodcourt and Dr.
Such traits are abundant in his presentments of Tulkinghorn, and Kenge, and Vholes in Wickfield, and many others that might be named; but they are so completely absent from his portrayals of Allan Woodcourt and Dr.
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