ealdermen

The ealdermen and dukes were all king's thanes, and all others who held lands of the king by knight's service in chief, and were immediately great tenants of the king's estates.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Indeed, one has only to read our earliest chronicles, and to glance over some of those long-winded moralizing poems which delighted the thanes and ealdermen of old, in order to see that the Daudles must have been a very influential family before William the First turned the country topsy-turvy.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Often in the good old days before the Monk-king reigned, kings and ealdermen had thus gone forth a-maying; but these merriments, savouring of heathenesse, that good prince misliked: nevertheless the song was as blithe, and the boughs were as green, as if king and ealderman had walked in the train.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Indeed, one has only to read our earliest chronicles, and to glance over some of those long-winded moralizing poems which delighted the thanes and ealdermen of old, in order to see that the Daudles must have been a very influential family before William the First turned the country topsy-turvy.

My Novel — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Often in the good old days before the Monk-king reigned, kings and ealdermen had thus gone forth a-maying; but these merriments, savouring of heathenesse, that good prince misliked: nevertheless the song was as blithe, and the boughs were as green, as if king and ealderman had walked in the train.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Right worthy and beloved, my ealdermen, earls, and thegns of England; noble and familiar, my friends and guests, counts and chevaliers of

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Right worthy and beloved, my ealdermen, earls, and thegns of England; noble and familiar, my friends and guests, counts and chevaliers of

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838