. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. ^^SfPf MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. 131 tyrannical imposition of the curfew, and, in some slight degree, a recognition of tba rights of the commons. When the marriage of Matilda of Scotland with Henry I. took place, a hundred copies of this digest of the righteous laws of Alfred and Edward the Confesso
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. ^^SfPf MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. 131 tyrannical imposition of the curfew, and, in some slight degree, a recognition of tba rights of the commons. When the marriage of Matilda of Scotland with Henry I. took place, a hundred copies of this digest of the righteous laws of Alfred and Edward the Confessor were made, and committed to the keeping of the principal bishoprics and monasteries in England; but when these were sought for, in the reign of John, to form a legal authority for the demands of the people, Rapin says only one could be found, which was exhibited to the barons by cardinal Langton. This was, in fact, the simple model on which Magna Charta was framed. It is supposed that Henry I., after Matilda's death, destroyed all the copies (on which he could lay his hands) of a covenant which, in the latter years of his reign, he scrupled not to infringe whenever he felt disposed. Hardyng, after recording the death of the 'red king,' relates the accession of Henry I., and his marriage with Matilda of Scotland, in the following rude stanzas:â ⢠-it! I, Ir eign |f';' '1'' ;lisli ,\:-\ : may Vi':!.' ntry vV;;!'. ^^r- ,.'i(.' â¢' liicli ;,,{'/ n of >â ; . ;: ders 'â {')' r. - isent u: â 'â â â \ itual i/Uf'H. 1 most I ** Henry, his brother, the first king of that name, Was crowned with all the honour that might be; He reconciled St. Anaelm, who came home. And crowned Maude hia wife Ml fair and free^ That daughter was (full of benignite) To lung Maloolyne and St. Margrete the queen Of Scotland, which afore that time had been | Of whom he gat William, Richard, and Molde, Whose goodness is yet spoken of full wide ; If she were Mr, her virtues many-fold Exceede
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