...nobility of selling theirfemale servants, even when pregnant by them, as slaves to foreigners. And a third says, that the English, before the conquest, were...and other relations to be slaves in Ireland, without Laving even the pretext of distress or famine; (Do. in notes.) Villeinage, as it was called in England,...

...Armenian who drove a hard bargain with him for his own son. Lives of Cel. Tavel. i. 194. — Giraldus Cambrensis says, that the English before the conquest...without having even the pretext of distress or famine. Hallam, State of Europe during the Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 372, note. — Lurd Teignmoutli, in a...

...Armenian who drove a hard bargain with him for his own son. Lives of Cel. Tavel. i. 194. — Giraldus Cambrensis says, that the English before the conquest...without having even the pretext of distress or famine. Hallam, State of Europe during the Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 372, note. — Lord. Teignmouth, in a...

...have hitherto been sold like brute animals." It is an established fact in history, that the English were generally in the habit of selling their children,...without having even the pretext of distress or famine; and the port of Bristol, which has since sent out so many ships laden with human flesh to Africa, was...

...have hitherto been sold like brute animals." It is an established fact in history, that the English were generally in the habit of selling their children,...without having even the pretext of distress or famine ; and the port of Bristol, which has since sent out so many ships laden with human flesh to Africa,...

...have hitherto been sold like brute animals." It is an established fact in history, that the English were generally in the habit of selling their children,...without having even the pretext of distress or famine; and the port of Bristol, which has since sent out so many ships laden with human flesh to Africa, was...

...men of England have hitherto been sold like brute animals. Wilkins's Concilia, tip 383. And Giraldus Cambrensis says that the English before the Conquest...take away all pretext for the threatened invasion of Ileiiry II. Lyttleton, vol. iii. p. 70. tolerably uniform, in others more unequal ; and the course...

...men of England have hitherto been sold like brute animals. Wil iins's Concilia, tip 383. And Giraldus Cambrensis says that the English before the Conquest...away all pretext for the threatened invasion of Henry I 1 Lyttelton, vol. iii. p. 70. their improvement, more gradual and less dependent upon conspicuous...

...England have hitherto been sold like brute animals. — Wilkins's Concilia, ti, p. 383. And Giraldus Cambrensis says that the English before the conquest...national synod, agreed to emancipate all the English slavei in the kingdom, id., p. 471. This seerns to have been designed to take away all pretext for...

...animals." And Giraldus Cambrensis says, that the English before the Conquest were accustomed to sell their children and other relations to be slaves in...emancipate all the English slaves in the kingdom. THE PRIVILEGE OF SANCTUARY. By this very ancient and curious Saxon law, if a person accused of any...