The peers who were the triers were eagerly whispering to one another.
There was the long arraignment to be read out by the Clerk of the Crown, then the names of the triers to be called out in their order--all that, before the prisoner was actually called to the bar.
It is hard to lay one's finger upon influences of this sort, but we can hardly doubt that there was some connection between Scot's brave indictment of the witch-triers and the lessening severity of court verdicts.
His weight was thrown in the other direction, and the witch-triers for a half-century to come invoked the name of Hale.
The presentees whom the Triers had approved took possession of the rectories, cultivated the glebe lands, collected the tithes, prayed without book or surplice, and administered the Eucharist to communicants seated at long tables.
The certificate of the Triers stood in the place both of institution and of induction; and without such a certificate no person could hold a benefice.
Triers were also appointed for the Elders in this peculiar Presbytery, one of them being William Prynne.
Thus there were to be 108 Triers in all in London.
It may therefore with safety be asserted, that this establishment for foundlings existed at Triers in the eighth century.
This plea was properly overruled, and not guilty pleaded, when his grace, to prejudice the peers-triers against the noble prisoner as a notorious exclusionist, delivered an inflammatory address to them before any evidence was given.
Jeffreys seems to have struggled hard to behave with moderation on this trial; but his habitual arrogance from time to time broke out, and must have created a disgust among the peers-triers very favorable to the prisoner.
It was insisted, therefore, that the Lords triers should retire with the Judges.
The Lord High Steward thought differently, and opposed this motion; but finding the other opinion generally prevalent, he gave way, and the Lords triers retired, taking the Judges to their consult.
He defends the Commission of Triers and the Commission of Ejectors, and more than once twits Goodwin with having taken up at last the extreme crotchets of Roger Williams the American.
The legal patrons of livings retained their right of nominating to vacancies; the Triers only checked that right by examination of nominees and the rejection of the unfit.
The Cumberland settlers had for years acted as an independent, law-abiding, and orderly commonwealth, and the Court of Triers had shown great firmness and wisdom.
Three Triers were competent to make a Court to decide a case where the debt or damage was a hundred dollars or less; and there was no appeal from their decision.
In common with the other Triers he undertook the solemnization of marriages; and these were always held legal, which was fortunate, as it was a young and vigorous community, of which the members were much given to early wedlock.
The four justices of the new court had all beenTriers of the old committee, and the scheme of government was practically not very greatly changed, although now resting on an indisputably legal basis.
Three of the Triers were to come from Nashborough, two from Mansker's, two from Bledsoe's, and one from each of five other named stations.
The Triers had no salaries, but the Clerk of the Court was allowed some very small fees, just enough to pay for the pens, ink, and paper, all of them scarce commodities.
It therefore became necessary that the Committee or Court of Triers should again be convened, to see that justice was done as between man and man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
