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Britannica 11th

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Britannica 11th

ENGLISHRY (Englcscherie), a legal name given, in the reign of William the Conqueror, to the presentment of the fact that a person slain was an Englishman. If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, ...

Vol. 9, pp. 645-645 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

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