Example sentences of "districts which had " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , they undoubtedly claimed the disafforestment of districts which had been put out of the forest during the reign of Stephen , and subsequently reclaimed by Henry II .
2 The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes .
3 The Justices of the Forest were once more sent out on eyre to hear pleas of the Forest , , and to re-establish the Forest system in any districts which had been lost .
4 He soon turned his attention to the districts which had been put out of the forest earlier in the reign .
5 By heavy amercements and by imprisonment he had compelled the regarders to make their regard in the ‘ purlieus ’ — that is , in districts which had been disafforested ; he had prevented the forest inhabitants from exercising their rights , even those conceded by royal charter and writs , unless they paid fines therefor before the Forest justices , and at Forest inquests he had compelled Forest officers and juries , under threat of imprisonment , to indict persons whom they knew to be innocent .
6 But many districts which had secured their freedom from the Forest law during Edward II 's reign were once more made subject to it .
7 The Forest law still applied in some measure , however , to the purlieus , the outlying districts which had been put out of the forest during the fourteenth century — although in some parts of the country the authority of the Forest officers was disputed there .
8 Some districts which had been forest in 1300 were however excluded in 1641 .
9 As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead .
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