| 单词 | king's handgrith |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's handgrith Security, peace, or protection given by a person. Only in king's handgrith and variants: protection or security guaranteed by a king's authority or power. Cf. church grith n., mund n. 2.In quot. 1691 interpreted as the crime of the breach of such a security. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or security > guaranteed security frithc893 grithc1000 king's handgrithOE OE Laws of Æðelred II (Claud.) vi. xiv. 250 Sy ælc cyricgrið binnan wagum & cyninges handgrið efen unwemme. OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (Junius) 140 Riht is..þæt cyricgrið stande æghwær binnan wagum and gehalgodes cynincges handgrið efen unwemme. lOE Laws of Edward & Guthrum (Rochester) i. 128 Hig gecwædon, þæt cyricgrið binnan wagum & cyninges handgrið stande efne unwemme. lOE Quadripartitus (Macro) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 129 Hoc est primum edictum ecclesie [ut] pax intra parietes suos ut [read et] regis hangrið semper inconuulsa permaneat. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Hangrith, infractio seu violatio pacis, quam quisquam per manum suam dabat alicui. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Handgrith, was anciently the Word for Peace or Protection given by the King with his own Hand. 1840 B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. 72/1 For examples of the king's hand-grith at a later period, see the letters of safe-conduct in Rymer's Fœdera. 1885 Oxf. Hist. Soc. 3 280 There does not appear to be any special law previously enacted relating to the breach of the king's hand grith apart from the breaking of the king's peace generally. 1937 J. E. A. Jolliffe Constit. Hist. Medieval Eng. ii. ii. 110 Those offences which could only be expiated by death unless the king extended to them his mercy, violation of the king's handgrith or peace personally given, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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