Forty Shilling Freeholders
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forty shilling freeholders · freeholders · a few freeholders then accounted wealthy
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A property-qualified class of freeholders who, allied with king and nobility, gained exclusive voice in electing knights of the shire after 1429.
until the government, composed of the king, the high functionaries of the church, the nobility, a House of Commons representing the “forty shilling freeholders,” and a dependent and servile judiciary, all acting in conspiracy against the mass of the people, became practically absolute, as it is at this day.
And it was not until 1429, (as will be more fully shown hereafter,) when a truce between themselves, and a formal combination against the mass of the people, had been entered into, by the king, the nobility, and the “forty shilling freeholders,” (a class whom Mackintosh designates as “a few freeholders then accounted wealthy,”*) by the exclusion of all others than such freeholders from all voice i …
“Forty shilling freeholders” were those “people dwelling and resident in the same counties, whereof every one of them shall have free land or tenement to the value of forty shillings by the year at the least above all charges.
The Law of Intellectual Property
A class of freeholders originally represented in the House of Commons, described as complicit in the lords' usurpation.
This usurpation was originally accomplished by them, by means of their wealth, and by conspiring with the king, the knights, and the “forty shilling freeholders,” so called (originally represented in the House of Commons);