Roumán Part II - Nouns,Adjectives,andPronouns

Raymond Brown wrote:

> [T]he Normans considered it pretty
> irrelevant as Saxons were most likely guilty anyway  :)
My favorite example of this is the "presentment of Englishry".  If
anyone was found dead by violence, the "hundred" (a territorial unit
larger than a village, smaller than a county) had to prove that the
deceased was English.  If they didn't or couldn't, he or she was
assumed to be French, and the hundred was fined heavily.  This was
not abolished until 1340 (by which time it had become a sort of tax
on other people's deaths, violent or not).

There were analogous presentments of Welshry and Irishry as well,
but I can find no details on them.

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