Kent
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also in the atlas: Kent the figure
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
County named as a site of the renewed war of 1648 in the charge.
and by divisions, parties, and insurrections within this land, by invasions from foreign parts, endeavoured and procured by him, and by many other evil ways and means, he, the said Charles Stuart, hath not only maintained and carried on the said war both by land and sea, during the years beforementioned, but also hath renewed, or caused to be renewed, the said war against the Parliament and good p …
The exceptions are that, in Kent, Hythe is to return one member in the place of Queenborough;
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English county whose customary Gavelkind is compared to and distinguished from the Irish custom of the same name.
Sullivan, who appears to have consulted many more original authorities than have been translated or given to the world, expresses himself as if he thought that the general law of succession in Ireland was nearly analogous to the Gavelkind of Kent.
Yet there is strong reason for thinking that Tanistry is the form of succession from which Primogeniture descended, and that the Irish Gavelkind, which they sharply distinguished from the Gavelkind of Kent, was nothing more than an archaic form of this same institution, of which Courts in England have always taken judicial notice, and which prevailed far more widely on the European Continent than …
The Genius of the Common Law
English county, site of the Eyre of Kent record cited in the footnotes.
’ Eyre of Kent, 6 and 7 Ed.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The county whose sheriff, Reginald of Cornhill, features in the 1201 Pipe Roll example.
Reginald of Cornhill, sheriff of Kent, was discharged in 1201 from liability for the appraised value of the goods of a man who, after indictment for burning a house, had died in gaol non convictus.