Studies in English Official Historical Documents (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... formulas with a tendency, in the case of the latter, towards the insertion of final clauses after the Continental fashion. Finally, it may be observed that the scope and purpose of the writ itself are conducive to that brevity and precision which are associated with the native post-Conquest formulas. In the vernacular instruments to which we have referred it will be found that the Superscription hitherto remarkable for its diffuseness is the simplest and the most consistent of all these formulas. It comprises the royal style in the words Ic A. cynige, or, merely, A. cynige, and no more. As no Subscriptions are appended to the Old English writ, this formula may be regarded as an anticipation of the brevity of the later official style employed on like occasions. Whether we should go a step further and assume that this informality of style and neglect of an official Subscription may be explained, in this case, by the use of a royal seal, is one of those vexed questions which we have already learnt to expect in the study of Old English diplomata2. The Superscription of this writ is followed by an Address, a clause which is now found for the first time. Its usual form is that of a particular or local and not a general address2. The persons usually addressed are the Bishop or Earl, or both, together with all the King's thegns within a certain shire; in fact all the officials of the County Court. In some well-known cases the Address includes the officers in every shire in which the beneficiary has lands. This Address, therefore, unlike the Superscription, is not merely conventional. On the other hand, the Salutation and Notification, which follow it, consist of stereotyped phrases, interesting only on account of their exact correspondence with...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... formulas with a tendency, in the case of the latter, towards the insertion of final clauses after the Continental fashion. Finally, it may be observed that the scope and purpose of the writ itself are conducive to that brevity and precision which are associated with the native post-Conquest formulas. In the vernacular instruments to which we have referred it will be found that the Superscription hitherto remarkable for its diffuseness is the simplest and the most consistent of all these formulas. It comprises the royal style in the words Ic A. cynige, or, merely, A. cynige, and no more. As no Subscriptions are appended to the Old English writ, this formula may be regarded as an anticipation of the brevity of the later official style employed on like occasions. Whether we should go a step further and assume that this informality of style and neglect of an official Subscription may be explained, in this case, by the use of a royal seal, is one of those vexed questions which we have already learnt to expect in the study of Old English diplomata2. The Superscription of this writ is followed by an Address, a clause which is now found for the first time. Its usual form is that of a particular or local and not a general address2. The persons usually addressed are the Bishop or Earl, or both, together with all the King's thegns within a certain shire; in fact all the officials of the County Court. In some well-known cases the Address includes the officers in every shire in which the beneficiary has lands. This Address, therefore, unlike the Superscription, is not merely conventional. On the other hand, the Salutation and Notification, which follow it, consist of stereotyped phrases, interesting only on account of their exact correspondence with...

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United States

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October 2012

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October 2012

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246 x 189 x 9mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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324

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978-1-152-61915-9

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9781152619159

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1-152-61915-2



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