witenagemot

• “It had always existed in one form or another, extending back continuously to the "witenagemot" of the Anglo-Saxons.”

  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

• “The Saxons and people of the North had their witenagemot.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “A witenagemot, or supreme council, was held here by King Ethelred in the year 866, and Alfred the Great pursued his literary work here by translating the _Consolations of Boethius_, and in the grounds he had a deer-fold.”

  From John O'Groats to Land's End

• “For the law was but universal custom, and that custom had no sanction; but for breach of the custom anybody could make personal attack, or combine with his friends to make attack, on the person who committed the breach, and then, when the matter was taken up by the members of both tribes, and finally by the witenagemot as a judicial court, the question was, what the law was.”

  Introduction to the Science of Sociology

• “At least in theory, however, the Norman kings were accustomed to consult this gathering of magnates, very much as their predecessors had been accustomed to consult the witenagemot, upon all important questions of legislation, finance, and public policy.”

  The Governments of Europe

• “* -- Associated with the king in the conduct of public business was the council of wise men, or witenagemot.”

  The Governments of Europe

• “Its descent can be traced directly from the Great Council of the Plantagenet period and, in the opinion of some scholars, from the witenagemot of”

  The Governments of Europe

• “He ruled as an English king; his feudal council was the witenagemot with a new qualification; but at the same time he was lord of the land as no king had been before him, and he enjoyed not only all the income of his predecessors but in addition all the dues which came to him as feudal sovereign.”

  Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

• “Nor should it be in the opposite process, which was equally easy, as when the Saxon chronicler, led by the superficial resemblance and overlooking the great institutional difference, called the curia of William by the Saxon name of witenagemot.”

  The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)

• “An outside body, the witenagemot, seemed about to acquire the right of imposing rules and regulations upon the Church, and another outside power, the king, to acquire the right of appointing its officers.”

  The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)

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