La storia della Scozia dai primi tempi al secolo attuale .. Erwick, Perth, Stirling, Ayr, Aberdeen e altri luoghi. La letteraturadei appresi e tutti i documenti ufficiali erano scritti in latino ; la letteratura della gente consisteva di ballate e canzoni, racconti e leggende tradizionali, che venivano appresi oralmente e trasmessi fromgeneration a generazione con tali varie-zioni aggiuntive come immaginazione e circostanze suggestedto alla mente nazionale. I charters sono stati concessi per la prima volta ai monasteri e alle chiese come titolo-atti delle loro terre. Allora i thekings hanno assegnato i charters che convogliano le terre

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The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . erwick, Perth, Stirling, Ayr, Aberdeen, and other places. The literatureof the learned and all official documents were writtenin Latin ; the literature of the people consisted ofballads and songs, traditional tales and legends, which were orally learned and transmitted fromgeneration to generation with such additional varia-tions as imagination and circumstances suggestedto the national mind. Charters were first granted to monasteries andchurches as title-deeds of their lands. Then thekings granted charters conveying lands to Nor-man and Saxon nobles with despotic powers overthe inhabitants on these lands. From this starting-point legal feudalism was gradually developed inScotland into a system unsurpassed in any nation.And from then till now its effects upon the peoplehave been felt, but it was most palpably apparentin the power and lawlessness of the Scotch nobles, and the consequent weakness of the central govern-ment of the kingdom. As there were rights of property in land before the. «Nkf^ COURT OF THE BOROUGHS. 33 era of granting charters, so the inhabitants of townshad their recognised customary rights long ere theyreceived royal charters. The earliest charters ofroyal boroughs always implied the existence of acommunity, and the charters simply recognised townswhich already existed. But the Crown charter con-ferred on the citizens of the boroughs special rightsand privileges of trade, local organisation, and govern-ment. Berwick, Edinburgh, Perth, Stirling, andRoxburgh were amongst the earliest royal boroughs, but the greater number of the boroughs receivedcharters from David I. In the twelfth century the boroughs to the northof the Grampians were associated for trade purposes.In the south they had a union called the Court of theFour Boroughs, which included Edinburgh, Stirling, Berwick, and Roxburgh. The members of this Courtexercised legislative and judicial functions, and it hasbeen infe

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• bookpublishernewyo
• bookyear1890