Palgrave
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Francis Palgrave
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Historian quoted narrating an anecdote of bribery in an Anglo-Saxon royal court case.
Palgrave also says:
“The precious ore was cast into the scales of justice, even when held by the most conscientious of our Anglo-Saxon kings.
”—1 Palgrave’s Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth, 637 to 642.
Ancient Law
Historian noted for work on early English constitutional and political history.
Palgrave, again, was often exuberant and fanciful, Kemble not seldom rash;