William Stubbs
historical figure · 3 works · 10 mentions · 22 anchored passages
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in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Historian (Bishop William Stubbs) whose characterization of the relationship between the thirty-eight and the twenty-five is cited.
Stubbs dismisses their relations to the executors with the remark that they “swore to obey the orders of the twenty–five.
Stubbs propounds the theory that this reissue of 1216 represents a compromise whereby the central government, in return for increased taxing powers, allowed to the feudal magnates increased rights of jurisdiction.
Bishop Stubbs, Preface to W.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Historian cited for his 'Constitutional History' on the English king's gesiths.
150) that ‘the gesiths of an (English) king were his guard and private council,’ observes that the ‘free household servants of a ceorl are also in a certain sense his gesiths.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Constitutional historian whose 'Constitutional History' and 'Select Charters' are cited as scholarly authority.
This is now held not to have been a statute.