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facts permits a system of chronological classification to be established , and thereby affords by its reflexations a means of historical test . Fiftieth—The name of " ' King " as in Kingston is not found at the earlier periods , nor is there evidence that at such epoch there were such functionaries or magistrates , with prerogatives as understood in modern times , and with assigned land revenues .
Fifty-first—In the earliest times , as stated by Kemble , the lands belonged to the communities of freemen , marks , gans , or toAvnships , and it Avas not till a later period that kings acquired power and revenue . Fifty-second—The like is to be observed as to the evidence of townships belonging to bishops , abbots , and lords of manors , but such
names are to he found in abundance after the Danish wars had reached their height , and whereby the ancient municipal constitution had succumbed , and in the confusion the church , the crown , and the great lords acquired the dominion and property of the lands belonging to the people .
Fifty-third—The topographical nomenclature of the English districts in Britain is conformable with that of 4 he districts occupied by the races of English laAV in Germania , as established by extensive comparisons of names . Fifty-fourth—There is no evidence of any Roman or Welsh influence subsisting during the invasion of Britain , and operating on the English settlers , but the distinct evidence that they preserved the nationality they had held in Germania .
Fifty-fifth—If the English did not acquire a new law or constitution on their settlement in Britain , the principles of English rights are not to be sought in the prescriptions or prerogatives claimed by the Roman emperors under the civil codes , or in the practice of the feudal law introduced by the Normans , but must be attributes of birthright belonging to the races as well before their settlement in Britain as after ; they must be the rights of English freemen , and not of Roman subjects .
Fifty-sixth—The application of the principles exhibited by English nomenclature to the English topographical names in Ireland exhibits conformable results , and by affording the characteristics of a distinctly modern epoch , affords another standard for checking the results of English nomenclature . Fifty-seventh—The nomenclature of New England and other
American districts , and of countries settled of late years by the English race , showing other causes in operation , thereby affords materials for understanding and comparing the distinct systems of the earlier epochs . Fifty-eighth—The topographical nomenclature includes besides those in other languages , a large collection of English words of the so-called
Anglo-Saxon types , with dialectic variations and inflexions , and thereby affords copious materials for the extension and rectification of the lexicography of the Anglo-Saxon portion of the language , and which has not hitherto been made available , except in the case of the names of places recorded in Saxon manuscripts , and which avc registered by Bosworth .
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Anglo-Saxon History As Illustrated By To...
facts permits a system of chronological classification to be established , and thereby affords by its reflexations a means of historical test . Fiftieth—The name of " ' King " as in Kingston is not found at the earlier periods , nor is there evidence that at such epoch there were such functionaries or magistrates , with prerogatives as understood in modern times , and with assigned land revenues .
Fifty-first—In the earliest times , as stated by Kemble , the lands belonged to the communities of freemen , marks , gans , or toAvnships , and it Avas not till a later period that kings acquired power and revenue . Fifty-second—The like is to be observed as to the evidence of townships belonging to bishops , abbots , and lords of manors , but such
names are to he found in abundance after the Danish wars had reached their height , and whereby the ancient municipal constitution had succumbed , and in the confusion the church , the crown , and the great lords acquired the dominion and property of the lands belonging to the people .
Fifty-third—The topographical nomenclature of the English districts in Britain is conformable with that of 4 he districts occupied by the races of English laAV in Germania , as established by extensive comparisons of names . Fifty-fourth—There is no evidence of any Roman or Welsh influence subsisting during the invasion of Britain , and operating on the English settlers , but the distinct evidence that they preserved the nationality they had held in Germania .
Fifty-fifth—If the English did not acquire a new law or constitution on their settlement in Britain , the principles of English rights are not to be sought in the prescriptions or prerogatives claimed by the Roman emperors under the civil codes , or in the practice of the feudal law introduced by the Normans , but must be attributes of birthright belonging to the races as well before their settlement in Britain as after ; they must be the rights of English freemen , and not of Roman subjects .
Fifty-sixth—The application of the principles exhibited by English nomenclature to the English topographical names in Ireland exhibits conformable results , and by affording the characteristics of a distinctly modern epoch , affords another standard for checking the results of English nomenclature . Fifty-seventh—The nomenclature of New England and other
American districts , and of countries settled of late years by the English race , showing other causes in operation , thereby affords materials for understanding and comparing the distinct systems of the earlier epochs . Fifty-eighth—The topographical nomenclature includes besides those in other languages , a large collection of English words of the so-called
Anglo-Saxon types , with dialectic variations and inflexions , and thereby affords copious materials for the extension and rectification of the lexicography of the Anglo-Saxon portion of the language , and which has not hitherto been made available , except in the case of the names of places recorded in Saxon manuscripts , and which avc registered by Bosworth .