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.
“The precious ore was cast into the scales of justice, even when held by the most conscientious of our Anglo-Saxon kings.
Palgrave also says:
As the ancient coronation oath, given in the text, has come down from the Saxon times, the following remarks of Palgrave will be pertinent, in connection with the oath, as illustrating the fact that, in those times, no special authority attached to the laws of the king:
Ancient Law
Historian noted for work on early English constitutional and political history.
Palgrave, again, was often exuberant and fanciful, Kemble not seldom rash;