Citations:witenagemot

English citations of witenagemot

wittena-gemote: historical English council

• 1844, Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage:

  He considers it "Incumbent on the historical antiquary to show, not when the people acceded to the wittena-gemotes, but when, if ever, they were divested of the right of attending them," […]

• 1855, James Wayland Joyce, England's Sacred Synods: A Constitutional History, page 181:

  It must again be repeated that during this period [804–1070] the clergy were "alone and by themselves as the peculiar officers and administrators of religion" in synods, they were in the mixed councils and wittena-gemotes as "common subjects" […]

• 1867, The Law Lexicon Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence, entry on Parliament:

  There appear to have been wittena-gemotes in each of the kingdoms composing the Saxon Heptarchy, and these, after the union of the kingdoms, became united into one great assembly or council.

witena-gemote: historical English council

• 1807, James Ingram, An Inaugural Lecture on the Utility of Anglo-Saxon, page 24:

  What arc our present Parliaments, but the revival of the free and simple witena-gemotes of our Saxon ancestors ? It is remarkable indeed, that the establishment of this bulwark of our constitution is coeval with the destruction of Norman tyranny, […]

• 1864, S. M. Johnson, Free Government in England and America, page 136:

  In proportion as the sovereign gained in prerogative, the powers of the witena-gemote of Wessex, the predominant kingdom, would gradually gain strength also.

• 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin:

  Whether purely conciliar action ceased, or whether it be that the assimilation of the national witena-gemotes to the older ecclesiastical councils renders it difficult to distinguish between lay and spiritual assemblies, the result is the same.

witena-gemote: historical English council

• 1890, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England: In Its Origin, volume 3:

  […] of the poor, legislation of the witenagemotes of Ethelred, although there seems to be no evidence that it was ever carried into effect, bore the same mark; […]