| Frederick Charles Danvers - 1877 - 266 страници
...subsisted in England even to the end of the 16th century, for a Commission was issued by Queen Elizabeth in 1574 for inquiring into the lands and goods of all...Gloucester, in order to compound with them for their manumis. sion, that they might enjoy their lands and goods as freemen. In Africa slavery has, in every... | |
| Henry Wager Halleck - 1878 - 588 страници
...gives a commission from Queen Elizabeth in 1574 for inquiring into the lands, tenements, and other goods of all her bondmen and bondwomen in the counties of Cornwall, Devonshire, Somerset, and Gloucester, such as were by blood in a slavish condition, by being born in... | |
| Alexander Laing - 1883 - 72 страници
...Elizabeth issued a commission to enquire into the lands and goods of all her bondsmen and bondswomen, in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and...order to compound with them for their manumission and that they may enjoy all their lands and goods as freed-men. 3 * 1 National Manuscripts of Scotland,... | |
| Charles S. Taylor, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1889 - 364 страници
...the Reformation. " This appears from a Commission issued by Queen Elizabeth in 1574, for enquiring into the lands and goods of all her bondmen and bondwomen...and Gloucester, in order to compound with them for manumission, in order that they might enjoy their lands and goods as freemen." It is very remarkable... | |
| Charles S. Taylor, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1889 - 366 страници
...issued by Queen Elizabeth in 1574, for enquiring into the lands and goods of all her bondmen and 93 bondwomen in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset,...and Gloucester, in order to compound with them for manumission, in order that they might enjoy their lands and goods as freemen." It is very remarkable... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 978 страници
...in 1574 by queen Elizabeth, to inquire into the lands nnd goods of all her bondsmen and bondswomen in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and...order to compound with them for their manumission, that they might enjoy all their lands and goods as f reedmen. In a few rare instances, liability to... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1887 - 724 страници
...was issued by Queen Elizabeth to inquire into the lands and goods of all her bondsmen and bondswomen in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and...order to compound with them for their manumission, that they might enjoy all their lands and goods as freedmen. In 1602, the last year of Elizabeth, a... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1818 - 414 страници
...Correspondence, time of Henry VIII. appears from a commission granted by Queen Elizabeth in ' 1574. f°r inquiring into the lands and goods of all her bondmen and bondwomen in ^_ Na»au- t the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Gloucester, in order to compound x" with... | |
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