Example sentences of "king [unc] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 2 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 3 | With the King 's acquiescence and in total contravention of the monarchy 's constitution , Primo de Rivera proceeded to establish a dictatorship . |
| 4 | In 1413 and again in 1460 the Chancellor of the University was ordered , ‘ under pain of the King 's wrath and of forfeiting the liberties and privileges of the University ’ , to issue a proclamation forbidding these practices , and to ‘ arrest any man under his rule offending in that behalf … and imprison them until he shall have special order of the King for their deliverance ’ . |
| 5 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 6 | Favourites , reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king 's government or in public order ; indeed , the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage . |
| 7 | But Welsh and English alike took care to put their valuables and their armour , if they had any , safely under lock and key , for if the returning troops were to be billeted in the town , even for a few nights , there would certainly be some looting , and no sane burgess was so loyal a king 's man as to be complacent about losing goods and gear without a struggle to preserve them . |
| 8 | Every question was considered in light of the King 's conscience and of divine precepts . |
| 9 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 10 | This identity of provincial synods with convocations was strengthened because such synods were seldom assembled thereafter except on the king 's initiative and for the principal purpose of consenting to royal taxation . |
| 11 | But the Forest wardens in many cases held office during the king 's pleasure and for relatively short periods : many were important and busy persons who performed many of their Forest duties by deputies . |
| 12 | Mr J. C. Sainty 's analysis of posts in the Exchequer shows that in the fourteenth century the important offices of Chancellor , King 's Chamberlain , and King 's Remembrancer were all held by their clerical occupants during the King 's pleasure or during good behaviour . |
| 13 | In 1061 he went to Rome on the king 's business and for his pallium , but was denied it and deprived of episcopal rank by Pope Nicholas II because his transference from one see to another was against church law . |