. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rthermore,the free use of outlawry in the judicial procedure of the timefilled the woods and waste places with bands of men, often ofcfentle blood, whose numbers made it inadvisable for theirvictims to protest. It is to ballads of the fourteenth centurythat we owe the idealisation of the career of Robin that those responsible for the law and order submittedto these things without some attempt at re
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rthermore,the free use of outlawry in the judicial procedure of the timefilled the woods and waste places with bands of men, often ofcfentle blood, whose numbers made it inadvisable for theirvictims to protest. It is to ballads of the fourteenth centurythat we owe the idealisation of the career of Robin that those responsible for the law and order submittedto these things without some attempt at remedy. In theStatute of Winchester (1285), Edward 1. aiiKUig other thingsattempted to provide for the safety of the roads by directingall neihbi)urinsr landowners to demolish the brushwood inwhich robbers might lurk on either side of tlic highways tothe breadth of two hundred feet, liut the executive was weak,or rather its influence was intermittent: the patronage ofsome local magnate was easy to get, and, in the last resort,the privilege of sanctuary for the felon, which was insisted onby the Church, gave a protection which was freely used. And 358 THE BLACK BEATJI. AND AFTEIIWAIW^.. TAKING SANCTUAKY (MS. Roy. lu E. iv.). the .sanctuaiy often extended for some distance round a speciallyfavoured Church. \\itliiii this boundary felons and male-factors of every kind woidd assemble, forming a society amongthemselves, and safe irom j)ursuit so long as they who became tired of his confined life was at libertyto alijure the kingdom. The coroner exacted an oath fromsuch an one that ho would go straight to the nearest port andthere avail himself of the first opportunity that offered ofembarking for some foreign land. Aniicd with a little crossand clad in the scantiest of garb he could tiien leave thesheltering precincts without fear of molestation, though onlytoo often the felons original instincts proved too strong forthe situation and he availed himself of his recovere
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