"Outlawry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Harold the Fair-haired, in 872 A.D., had united all the scattered earldoms of Norway under his own sway, he issued a stringent order forbidding pillaging within his kingdom under penalty of outlawry. The custom of sailing out into the world as a viking and plundering foreign lands, was held to be a most honorable one in those days; and every chieftain who wished to give his sons the advantages of "a liberal education" ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various
... [1266] the dispossessed barons of England and the royalists were engaged in fierce hostilities. Among the former, Roger Mortimer occupied the Welsh marches, and John Daynil the Isle of Ely. Robert Hood was now living in outlawry among ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various
... eat, with the excommunicate (Canons of Ecgbright). No meat might be given into their hands even in charity, although it might be laid before them on the ground. Those who sheltered them incurred a heavy "were gild," and endangered the loss of their estates; and finally, in case of obstinacy, outlawry and ...
— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... it to some better purpose, and in so doing to increasingly civilize these Germanic lords and overlords, was the problem which faced the Church and all interested in establishing an orderly society in Europe. As a means of checking this outlawry the Church established and tried to enforce the "Truce of God" (R. 79), and as a partial means of educating the nobility to some better conception of a purpose in life the Church aided in the development of ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... moral habits we may best judge by their religion. All we know of their history seems to prove that with them might was right, and outlawry the only penalty of ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud
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