10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITENAGEMOTE»
Discover the use of
witenagemote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
witenagemote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer...
either civil or military j for he had Witenagemote was, probably, the no
Jurisdiction but only as President Original of the King's Writ for call- of the general
Witenagemote of his ing a Man to what we now Call the Kingdom, or of his own
Court Ba- ...
2
United States constitutional history and law
The Saxon Witenagemote. — The Saxon kingdom was never an absolute
monarchy. The power of the Anglo-Saxon king, whether it be during the period of
the many kingdoms, of the seven, of the three, or of the one, was always limited
by his ...
3
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
It was called by the king, in his grants and laws, his witan, his witenagemote, his
mycel synoth (great synod), michel getheaht (great deliberation), his eadigan (
worthy) ; and in Latin by similar names, e.g. magnum concilium sapien- tum, ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1843
4
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
It was called by the king, in his grants and laws, his witan, his witenagemote, his
mycel synoth (great synod), michel getheaht (great deliberation), his eadigan (
worthy) ; and in Latin by similar names, e.g. magnum concilium sapien- tum, ...
5
The Owen Cipher: A Paper Read Before the
Witenagemote on ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Frederick Wharton Mann, 2011
6
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
... as king of all England, was the eldest son of Alfred the Great, by his queen
Alswitha, the daughter of Earl /Ethelred. On the death of his father, 26th October,
901, Edward was recognized by the Witenagemote as his successor ; but the
throne ...
7
The Elements of English Constitutional History, from the ...
The Witenagemote. — But the most definite check upon the power of the Anglo-
Saxon king was the custom which required him, in all important public business,
to take counsel with the witenagemote, the assembly of wise men. Origin of the ...
Francis Charles Montague, 1897
8
Introduction to the study of law. Legal history
The Saxon Witenagemote. The Saxon kingdom was never an absolute monarchy
. The power of the Anglo-Saxon King, whether it be during the period of the many
kingdoms, of the seven, of the three, or of the one, was always limited by his ...
Albert Hutchinson Putney, 1908
9
Introduction to the study of law. Legal history.- v. 2. ...
The Saxon Witenagemote. The Saxon kingdom was never an absolute monarchy
. The power of the Anglo-Saxon King, whether it be during the period of the many
kingdoms, of the seven, of the three, or of the one, was always limited by his ...
Albert Hutchinson Putney, 1908
Thus we find Ina, King of Wessex, in 688, making seventy-nine laws at his
witenagemote, “ with the advice of his prelates, eorldermen, wisemen, and clergy.
” So Edgar, in 971, long after the union of the Heptarchy, speaks of the laws
which had ...
Henry Brougham (Lord), 1843
